Bengaluru: People who wanted to take trains to their destinations from the Bengaluru City Railway Station on Thursday morning faced difficulties in entering the station as members of the Karnataka Rajya Anganwadi Noukarara Sangha staged a protest by blocking the entry to the station.

The protest caused a lot of inconvenience to other commuters also in the central part of the city.

The protesters later took out a rally to Freedom Park and squatted on the busy arterial Seshadri Road throwing the traffic out of gear for about an hour. Massive traffic jams were reported on K.G. Road, Seshadri Road, Palace Road, Majestic, Anand Rao Circle, Mysore Road, Race Course Road, and Sampige Road.

Police manually managed the flow of traffic. Hundreds of police personnel had been deployed for the purpose. It was only by afternoon that the traffic movement normalised. The protesters demanded that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah should listen to their woes.

“The protesters comprised women and children and we decided not to use force to remove them from the road,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (West Division) Labhu Ram.

The situation eased only after officials from the Chief Minister’s office rushed to Freedom Park and took the memorandum from the protesters demanding scaling up of their wages.

Receiving the memorandum from the representatives of the organisation, who have been on the strike for over the past 10 days, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah assured that he would make provision for a hike in their honorarium in the budget.