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[Kumar @nlathish]

@GBA_office Why all funds go to posh , well developed areas only ?
No roads at all from Fruit Martket to Ebenezer School , Kammasandra , Ananthanagar . Spend at least a drop of tar or concrete. CMC Commissioner says he is not getting concrete mix to fix road dug up 6 months back for sewage

[ಸನಾತನ (सनातन) @sanatan_kannada]

Brand Bengaluru deserves better than headlines it deserves development.

Three years into the government’s term, Bengaluru’s roads remain in poor condition, potholes continue to plague commuters, and meaningful road development is still missing.

Enough of announcements. It’s time for action. Fix Bengaluru’s roads and deliver the development citizens deserve.

📍 KadubisanaHalli

#BrandBengaluru #NammaBengaluru #CongressFails

[Kumar @nlathish]

@kiranshaw @TVMohandasPai @indsupremecourt
Dear Registrar of Supreme Court of India, Please file Contempt of Court against Hebbagodi Police and Karnataka Police Department for ignoring Honorable SupremeCourt orders on Right to Protest peacefully.

[St. Broseph @St_Brosephs]

Hello @SantoshSLadINC sir,

As you know, following the death of Medha Akarsh due to poor road conditions in Hebbagodi, a group of local, concerned citizens had come together for a peaceful spontaneous protest demanding accountability from concerned officials.

It was truly a peaceful protest with some slogans, and now as per multiple reports, the Hebbagodi Police Station is contacting common citizens who participated in that protest and are threatening them with punitive actions only because they dared to raise their voices in the wake of a young woman's death.

Why should FIRs be filed against common citizens for simply raising their voices? Article 19 of the Indian constitution specifically grants citizens the right to protest.

I am aware that due to the Licensing and Regulation of Protests, Demonstrations and Protest Marches (Bengaluru City) Order, 2021, protests in Bengaluru City are restricted to Freedom Park only, but Hebbagodi comes under the Hebbagodi City Municipal Council and not under any limit that could be considered as "Bangalore City"

So these actions of @HebbagodiPS to threaten and punish common citizens for protesting are unconstitutional, undemocratic, and have absolutely no legal basis whatsoever.

I request your intervention in this, and also the attention of @DCP_ECITY and @BlrCityPolice to stop the harassment of citizens with immediate effect

I implore you to instead redirect the focus and might of our police force into investigating the circumstances leading to Medha's death so that all those culpable and responsible can be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

#JusticeForMedhaAkarsh

[Kumar @nlathish]

After digging all roads and killing people , now they are coming against peaceful protests.
@GKforKPSC @DgpKarnataka PLEASE ASK ALL POLICE STAFF WHO ARE SERVANTS OF PEOPLE TO READ SUPREME COURT ORDERS ON PEACEFUL PROTESTS

[St. Broseph @St_Brosephs]

Hello @SantoshSLadINC sir,

As you know, following the death of Medha Akarsh due to poor road conditions in Hebbagodi, a group of local, concerned citizens had come together for a peaceful spontaneous protest demanding accountability from concerned officials.

It was truly a peaceful protest with some slogans, and now as per multiple reports, the Hebbagodi Police Station is contacting common citizens who participated in that protest and are threatening them with punitive actions only because they dared to raise their voices in the wake of a young woman's death.

Why should FIRs be filed against common citizens for simply raising their voices? Article 19 of the Indian constitution specifically grants citizens the right to protest.

I am aware that due to the Licensing and Regulation of Protests, Demonstrations and Protest Marches (Bengaluru City) Order, 2021, protests in Bengaluru City are restricted to Freedom Park only, but Hebbagodi comes under the Hebbagodi City Municipal Council and not under any limit that could be considered as "Bangalore City"

So these actions of @HebbagodiPS to threaten and punish common citizens for protesting are unconstitutional, undemocratic, and have absolutely no legal basis whatsoever.

I request your intervention in this, and also the attention of @DCP_ECITY and @BlrCityPolice to stop the harassment of citizens with immediate effect

I implore you to instead redirect the focus and might of our police force into investigating the circumstances leading to Medha's death so that all those culpable and responsible can be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

#JusticeForMedhaAkarsh

[Pruthvin Reddy @Pruthvinreddy]

This road didn't get asphalt for more than 15years!!

[Narayan Kulkarni @narayankulkarni]

A 32-year-old Bengaluru woman left for work.

She never came home.

Not because Bengaluru doesn't have money.

But because somewhere along the way, basic infrastructure stopped being basic.

Her name was Medha Akarsh.

An EPFO employee.

A wife.

And the mother of a 3-year-old child.

She was reportedly just around 3 km from home when the two-wheeler she was travelling on lost control on a damaged, slushy stretch of Ananth Nagar Main Road.

She fell.

A goods vehicle ran over her.

She died.

And now comes the question Bengaluru needs to ask:

Was this merely a road accident?

Or was it the final consequence of years of civic neglect?

Residents say the road had been in terrible condition for years.

Complaints were allegedly made.

Roads were dug.

Repairs happened.

Roads deteriorated again.

And people continued navigating them every single day.

Until one journey became someone's last.

But there is a much bigger question here.

In 2023, the Congress government came to power in Karnataka with its five guarantee schemes.

There is nothing inherently wrong with welfare.

A government absolutely has a responsibility to support people who genuinely need help.

But welfare also has an opportunity cost.

And we now have an uncomfortable number from India's own auditor.

The CAG found that higher allocation towards the guarantee schemes reduced Karnataka's infrastructure spending by ₹5,229 crore in 2023–24.

Read that again.

₹5,229 crore less for infrastructure.

The five guarantees are expected to cost approximately ₹51,286 crore in 2026–27 alone.

This isn't an argument for abolishing welfare.

It is an argument for asking:

Where should the line between welfare and development be drawn?

Because taxpayers need both.

A woman travelling free on a bus is welfare.

A family receiving support is welfare.

Free electricity can provide relief.

But…

A road that doesn't kill you is also welfare.

A functioning footpath is welfare.

A drain that prevents a road from becoming a death trap is welfare.

A streetlight that works is welfare.

And infrastructure benefits everyone — rich, poor, taxpayer and beneficiary alike.

To be fair, Karnataka is spending on infrastructure.

The 2026–27 Budget proposes ₹71,924 crore of capital outlay, and Bengaluru has been allocated thousands of crores for infrastructure projects.

So perhaps the problem isn't simply:

“There is no money.”

The more disturbing possibility is:

We are spending enormous amounts of money — and citizens still cannot get a safe road outside their homes.

Which brings us to accountability.

Who maintained Ananth Nagar Main Road?

Who was the contractor?

When was it resurfaced?

How much taxpayer money was spent?

Who inspected the work?

Who signed the completion certificate?

How many complaints were received?

And what happened to them?

Because after every Bengaluru road tragedy, we seem to follow the same ritual.

Accident.

Outrage.

Officials visit.

Potholes get filled.

Photos get taken.

And everyone moves on.

Until the next citizen dies.

This should not become a Congress-vs-BJP argument either.

Governments change.

The taxpayer doesn't.

The party occupying Vidhana Soudha has one fundamental responsibility:

Collect our taxes.

Spend them wisely.

And provide functioning public infrastructure.

Karnataka's government must therefore answer a difficult question:

Can we afford ₹50,000+ crore every year on guarantees while basic civic infrastructure remains dangerously inadequate in parts of the state?

Maybe the answer is yes.

But then citizens have every right to demand that the government demonstrate how it will fund both.

Because guarantees win elections.

Infrastructure rarely does.

Nobody cuts a ribbon when a pothole is repaired properly.

Nobody holds a rally because a drain works.

Nobody puts up a giant poster because a road lasted ten years.

But these boring things are what governments are actually supposed to get right.

Medha Akarsh was someone's daughter.

Someone's wife.

And a three-year-old child's mother.

Tomorrow the person navigating that broken road could be any of us.

Perhaps Karnataka needs one more guarantee.

Not another ₹2,000.

Not another subsidy.

Just this:

“If you pay taxes and step out of your house, the road shouldn't kill you.”

That shouldn't be a political promise.

It should be the minimum standard of governance.

#Bengaluru #Karnataka #Infrastructure #RoadSafety #Taxpayers #Governance #Accountability

[Kumar @nlathish]

@krishnabgowda
DEVELOP ROADS IN OUTSKIRTS OF BANGALORE TO REDUCE OVERCROWDING IN THE CITY AND PEOPLE CAN MOVE OUT.

DEVELOP HIGHWAYS IN PERIPHERAL AREAS LIKE ELECTRONICS CITY - SARJAPUR ROAD - WHITEFIELD TO REDUCE TRAFFIC IN MAIN CHOKING POINTS LIKE ORR.

[Bengaluru Post @bengalurupost1]

Who is the MLA here, and what exactly is RDPR doing?

A young life has been lost and a child has lost his mother. How many more lives must be lost before someone takes responsibility?

Why isn’t the MLA and the concerned department on the ground today to inspect the road and fix the problem?

People should demand answers. Call your MLA. Tag the Minister. Get them to the spot.

VC : IG/johnsakaleshpura

@eshwar_khandre @rdprgok @DrCNManjunath

[Nabila Jamal @nabilajamal_]

Once again, Bengaluru’s deadly potholes claim a life!

Medha Akarsh, a central government employee with the EPFO, died after falling from a two-wheeler while travelling to office with a colleague, reportedly due to a pothole-riddled road just 3 km from her home

Residents say the stretch has long been plagued by potholes, waterlogging and damaged surfaces

[Kumar @nlathish]

@nabilajamal_ @krishnabgowda
DEVELOP ROADS IN OUTSKIRTS OF BANGALORE TO REDUCE OVERCROWDING IN THE CITY AND PEOPLE CAN MOVE OUT.

DEVELOP HIGHWAYS IN PERIPHERAL AREAS LIKE ELECTRONICS CITY - SARJAPUR ROAD - WHITEFIELD TO REDUCE TRAFFIC IN MAIN CHOKING POINTS LIKE ORR.

[Kumar @nlathish]

@TheSouthfirst @krishnabgowda
DEVELOP ROADS IN OUTSKIRTS OF BANGALORE TO REDUCE OVERCROWDING IN THE CITY AND PEOPLE CAN MOVE OUT.

DEVELOP HIGHWAYS IN PERIPHERAL AREAS LIKE ELECTRONICS CITY - SARJAPUR ROAD - WHITEFIELD TO REDUCE TRAFFIC IN MAIN CHOKING POINTS LIKE ORR.

[TIMES NOW @TimesNow]

Pothole Horror In Bengaluru

So many years after independence, they (the government) still cannot create roads without potholes. I urge the PM to have those responsible arrested...: @TVMohandasPai

It is simply a failure of the government’s duty, because this is what we are really asking for as a basic service...: @priyachettyr tells @madhavgk

[Kumar @nlathish]

@TimesNow @TVMohandasPai @krishnabgowda
DEVELOP ROADS IN OUTSKIRTS OF BANGALORE TO REDUCE OVERCROWDING IN THE CITY AND PEOPLE CAN MOVE OUT.

DEVELOP HIGHWAYS IN PERIPHERAL AREAS LIKE ELECTRONICS CITY - SARJAPUR ROAD - WHITEFIELD TO REDUCE TRAFFIC IN MAIN CHOKING POINTS LIKE ORR.

[Kumar @nlathish]

@krishnabgowda
DEVELOP ROADS IN OUTSKIRTS OF BANGALORE TO REDUCE OVERCROWDING IN THE CITY AND PEOPLE CAN MOVE OUT.

DEVELOP HIGHWAYS IN PERIPHERAL AREAS LIKE ELECTRONICS CITY - SARJAPUR ROAD - WHITEFIELD TO REDUCE TRAFFIC IN MAIN CHOKING POINTS LIKE ORR.

[TIMES NOW @TimesNow]

Pothole Horror In Bengaluru | EPF Employee Dies In Road Accident

Instead of concentrating on civic problems, they are all busy trying to politicise everything and trying to make money out of every damn thing they can: Times Now Viewer tells @prathibhatweets

I think we are all responsible. I don't just blame the authorities. We, as people, are also responsible. We don't elect proper representatives, says another.

[TIMES NOW @TimesNow]

Pothole Horror In Bengaluru | EPF Employee Dies In Road Accident

Instead of concentrating on civic problems, they are all busy trying to politicise everything and trying to make money out of every damn thing they can: Times Now Viewer tells @prathibhatweets

I think we are all responsible. I don't just blame the authorities. We, as people, are also responsible. We don't elect proper representatives, says another.

[Kumar @nlathish]

@krishnabgowda

[Residents of Ecity-Ph2, Ananthnagar, heelalige @AnekalResiForum]

Another life is gone due to bad roads today opp Lord srinivasa temple on 12/8/26 #ananthnagar #bbmp @MLAShivanna @krishnabgowda @bbmpcommr @GBAChiefComm @GBA_office @DEO_GBA

[Kumar @nlathish]

@krishnabgowda

[Reddy Murali @ReddyMurali6677]

Nobody dares to question the master enabler.THE LOCAL MLA,who contractors,administrators,engineers report to.Anekal is part of B’lru, but roads shame craters on moon… life of Anekal citizens is so very disposable. @TVMohandasPai @ChristinMP_ @Pruthvinreddy @kiranshaw @TimesNow

[Kumar @nlathish]

@sudhir21271 @krishnabgowda @CMofKarnataka Kammasandra - Anantnagar roads ! Became an island , though next to Highway NH44 . No alternate roads planned before digging all possible roads by CMC .

[Kumar @nlathish]

@TimesNow Situation of roads in Kammasandra - Anantnagar area in Electronics city . It has become an island next to highway NH44 with no exit to highway !!!

[Kumar @nlathish]

@sk_2386 Situation of roads in Kammasandra - Anantanagar area

[Kumar @nlathish]

@tapasadhikary Real condition of roads in Kammasandra / Ananthanagar Area .