Mysuru, Aug. 12 -- Following the sacking of senior Congress leader and Co-operation Minister K.N. Rajanna, from the State Cabinet, the members of Karnataka Rajya Nayaka Community Welfare Forum, staged a flash protest in front of Mahatma Gandhi's bust opposite Law Courts Complex on Krishnaraja Boulevard in the city yesterday.

The protesters, led by Nayaka Forum State President Dyavappa Nayak, raised slogans against the Congress High Command.

In his address, Nayak said, earlier ST Welfare Minister B. Nagendra was forced to resign from the Cabinet and now Rajanna has been sacked from the Cabinet. Such moves are an insult to Nayaka community, to which these leaders belong to.

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