Vidhana Soudha will be a true cultural centre: Kumaraswamy

Staff Reporter

State plans to create infrastructure at places of public interest in city

BANGALORE: The State Government is planning to create a traffic-free
zone in the vicinity of the Vidhana Soudha, from K.R. Circle to
Thimmaiah Circle, covering Vikasa Soudha, on all Saturdays and Sundays
for facilitating cultural programmes, Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy
has said.

Inaugurating the first-ever `Janapada Jaatre,' right on the footsteps of
the Vidhana Soudha on Saturday, Mr. Kumaraswamy said the Government
would make the Vidhana Soudha open for all, despite security threats.

The very purpose of throwing open the sprawling exterior of the
magnificent marble structure and its vicinity for all was also an
attempt to neutralise terrorist threats, besides providing a free and
comfortable picnic ambience, he said.

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(image: GRAND ARRIVAL: Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy, Home Minister
M.P. Prakash and Kannada and Culture Secretary I.M. Vittalmurthy
arriving in a bullock cart for the inauguration of Janapada Jaatre, in
Bangalore on Saturday. — Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy, source, the Hindu)