Mysore/Mysuru, Feb. 5 -- At age 82, B.S. Sridhar Raje Urs was forced to take this step owing to shopkeeper's refusal to vacate shop for facilitating construction of Sri Venugopalaswamy Temple Rajagopura

Disgusted with the adjacent shopkeeper's refusal and defiance to vacate the shop for facilitating the construction of a bigger temple Rajagopura, the city's Sri Venugopalaswamy Temple Committee President B.S. Sridhar Raje Urs today staged a day-long solo hunger strike in front of the temple on Thyagaraja Road, K.R. Mohalla in the city.

The octogenarian sat on the dharna barefoot with a copy of Bhagavad Gita, portraits of Mahatma Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda on the right side table and a walking stick on his left hand.

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