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Udupi: Haladi Srinivas Shetty, MLA of Kundapur Constituency has been cheated  by his own Party having invited him to Bangalore  to take oath as a Minister. The decision had been repealed  by certain tactics or manipulations, it is learnt. In the light of the bitter experience that Haladi experienced, he has decided to resign from his MLA status, and also evacuate his room in the Legislators' Home effective immedialtely, and is ready to return home soon.

Speaking with media persons in Bangalore Haladi said: " I never had been an aspirant to Ministership, I never indulged in lobby making Politics, nor did I wanted to identify with any group as such. I left for Bangalore with the invitation from leaders of the Party on Wednesday night. But they insulted me, I am deeply hurt", saying this he expressed his resolution to resign tendering his resignation letter to the Speaker.
 
Haladi's admirers, Party Workers condemning the kind of treatment meted out to their leader by the Party itself, had earlier called for a Kundapur Bund, the Bundh effect reached even to Udupi, with no buses plying on streets. About 3000 of his supporters assembling at Kundapur Shastri Circle staged Rasta Roko, during which the police had a tough time in  controlling the furious mob.
 
Condemning the insult meted out to Halaldi Srinivas Shetty, many MLAs, District's district, taluk & grama panchayath members have expressed their decision to quite their positions as a mark of protest to the high handedness of the Party.