Mysore/Mysuru, May 15 -- Protest staged along with progressive organisations at ZP office premises

Demanding the revocation of order allotting land at Gudumadanahalli in Varuna hobli, Mysuru taluk, to build a NIMHANS-like hospital, hundreds of farmers took out a padayatra from the proposed hospital site to the Chief Minister's Office at Zilla Panchayat (ZP) premises on Krishnaraja Boulevard in the city this morning.

The farmers who launched the padayatra under the banner of Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) in association with Dalita Sangarsha Samiti (DSS), Parisarakkkagi Navu and various progressive organisations, at 8 am, reached the ZP Office on foot at about 11.30 am, covering a distance of 10-km.

The protest was an extension of...