Mandya, July 29 -- Members of various farmer organisations, pro-Kannada outfits and workers of political parties, staged protests on Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway passing through the town at Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar Circle here yesterday, against the order of Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC) to Karnataka to release 3,500 cusecs of water daily up to 15 days to Tamil Nadu.

The protesters, who waved Kannada flags and showed dry paddy stalks to show how the crops have been withering due to lack of adequate water in the dams to meet the irrigation of agricultural fields, blocked the traffic for sometime.

Pro-Kannada activists Manju, H.D. Jayaram, S.P. Narayan Swamy, Somashekar, Shivakumar Aradhya, C.T. Manjunath and others took part in ...