Save Cubbon Park Campaign

 

PRESS INVITATION

 

SAVE CUBBON PARK CAMPAIGN CONTINUES

                                                                                     

29 January 1999

 

Dear Sir or Madam:

 

During October and November last year, citizens across Bangalore joined together in an amazing alliance to save one of their most cherished heritage: Cubbon Park.  The support extended by your organisation in providing consistent and comprehensive reportage, helped in building pressure against the Government effectively. 

 

It’s over three months since the Campaign was dis-continued in respect for the Judicial intervention.  Various groups have filed Impleading Applications in the suo moto proceeding of the High Court in order to seek a permanent solution to the issue.  Sad to say, delays in the Court have resulted in a limited scope for legal recourse that is both timely and result oriented.  Encouraged by the delay, the Government has continued constructing the highly controversial LH Annexe.  This in our opinion is a wholly illegal construction, especially in the context of the High Court order of 2nd November 1998.

 

This must stop, and there is enough resolve and scope to stop this today. 

 

We have decided to re-start our campaign on the solemn occasion of the Martyr’s day.  This time, we will organise our protest very much in the Vidhana Soudha complex, the LH Annexe construction area.  The demonstration tomorrow is only symbolic, to draw the attention of the public and the powers that be that Cubbon Park is far from safe.  Following this demonstration, which will involve various citizen action groups, student groups and women’s groups, at 11 a.m., we will walk to the Honourable Governor’s residence and present a memorandum of our demands.  

 

We hope very much that you will support us in this resolve in the public interest and provide, as before, wide coverage to the event tomorrow.

 

Date:                30 January 1999

Time:                11.00 a.m.

Venue:              LH Annexe Complex, Vidhana Soudha, Cubbon Park

 

Thank you for your cooperation and support.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Dharma Somashekar, President, Sanmathi                                                          

Leo F. Saldanha, Coordinator, Environment Support Group

Bimal Desai, Principal Litigant in the Cub`bon Park case                                                 

V. K. Somashekar, Managing Trustee, Grahaka Shakti

 

 

Address for contact:

 

Sanmathi, 1188, 3rd Cross, 26th Main, 1st Phase, J.P. Nagar, Bangalore 560 078 Tel: 6636291, 6638513 Fax:  6637947

Environment Support Group ®, 36, Reservoir Road, Basavanagudi, Bangalore 560 004 Telefax: 6614855 Email: [email protected]