Ragigudda Metro Station in Bengaluru. | Photo Credit: SUDHAKARA JAIN
The space the place the station has been constructed is located in Marenahalli and never Ragigudda which is round half a kilometre away from the station. Though Ragigudda is already well-known for a lot of issues, the residents needed the identify of the station as Marenahalli which has a historical past of 400 years, named after Salammadevi, stated Manikantha B, member of the Okkuta.
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The members gave a petition to the federal government in 2020 however attributable to stress from native politicians, the station has been named as Ragigudda. “We needed at the very least the federal government to contemplate our demand and identify it Marenahalli-Ragigudda station,” the members demanded.
The police swoop down on Saturday evening (August 9, 2025) and detained the members on the pretext of chatting with them and seized supplies together with banners, handbills and copies of the petition.
“We don’t need to disrupt the inauguration however needed to convey our concern which has not been thought of since three years regardless of repeated makes an attempt,” the members stated.
The members had been detained and brought to JP Nagar, Siddapura, earlier than being taken to Hanumantha Nagar police station.
The Bengaluru police additionally rounded up all members of the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), the scholar wing of the Congress, from throughout the town and stored them underneath home arrest on August 9 night. With PM Modi’s go to to the town coming simply days after the allegations of ‘vote theft’ by Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, the police feared protests by the scholar activists.
Published – August 10, 2025 01:29 pm IST
