Cauvery water disputeAnger and sorrow: Tamil Nadu lorry owners at a protest demonstration in Hosur on Wednesday. Photo: N.BashkaranThe Tamil Nadu Lorry Owners’ Federation staged a protest here, condemning the attacks on lorries and drivers, and called for due compensation for the losses caused during the violence in Karnataka over the Cauvery issue. The protests by the Sand Lorry Owners’ Federation and the All-India Drivers’ Peravai took place outside the old Municipality office on Wednesday. Lorry Owners’ Federation, said over 35 vehicles were set ablaze and lorry drivers humiliated. The lorry booking agents had stopped booking goods for Karnataka and would resume only after total normality returned, Rajavadivel, president of the Tamil Nadu Lorry Booking Agents’ Federation, said.

Source: The Hindu September 14, 2016 21:56 UTC