Save Cubbon Park Campaign
PRESS
INVITATION
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]