Hubballi: Members of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) staged a protest in front of Mini Vidhana Soudha in the city on Thursday, condemning the government’s order of shifting postal store depot from Hubballi to Bengaluru.
The protesters led by party’s district president Santosh Nargund submitted a memorandum addressed to Union telecom minister Ravishankar Prasad at the tahsildar’s office, urging him not to shift the postal store depot from Hubballi. The depot supplies postal materials to 14 districts of North Karnataka.
“Just eight months ago, the lone post of gazetted senior postmaster was shifted to Bengaluru from North Karnataka. Immediately after this, the government is shifting the depot. This is unfortunate and against the spirit of administrative decentralisation,” said the protesters.
Party leaders Shashikumar Sullad, Vikas Soppin, Revansiddappa Hubballi and others were present..