Udupi; March 15: Addressing the public meeting held on March 15,Saturday in Parkala Gandhi Maidan organized in Udupi city against National Higway,Shobha Karandlaje,BJP candidate for Udupi-Chikmagalur constituency in the ensuing Loka Sabha election said that development works, those are being done by grabbing the life, is not called as development. In urban areas, national highway is not required. Let the 40-40 feet road be like that only. Government has put its hands to ban areca nut. Nobody has ever died, due to areca nut but yes, due to tobacco there were many problems, she said.
Padayatra, which started from High school, culminated at Gandhi Maidan.
