They fasted to get hubbies off the bottle

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">DAVANAGERE: Kanchikere village in Harapanahalli taluk witnessed a unique protest on Wednesday although men in the village were surely irked by what went on.<br /><br />Women in this village have had enough. Their husbands and elder sons are heavily addicted to liquor. That there are 20 liquor shops in this moderately populated hamlet can make anyone realise what women could have suffered.<br /><br />The women''s grouse remains the usual, yet agonising.These men, after having toiled for a whole day, usually lead themselves to the shacks which serve them liquor. <br /><br />Their drunkard behaviour has left a formidable impact on the children in the village. The women, who not only have to put up with the drunken husbands, have also taken up the responsibility of running the house.<br /><br />With meagre incomes, they often could not buy food for their children, let alone provide them with good clothes and education.<br /><br />The deteriorating socio-economic conditions left the women in a funk. They put up with their husbands hoping that some day, their husbands would realise the precarious way of living they had opted for.<br /><br />The day never arrived. Instead, the women thought ``enough was enough''''. They gathered at a place backed by the members of Kissan Sabha and various women''s organisations and launched an indefinite hunger strike. They urged the authorities to shut down the liquor shops at once including the godown.<br /><br />Amid enough of signs of resistance as well as contempt by men, these women carried out their protest till the end of the day and threatened to continue with it unless the shops were shut down and the men realised their crime.<br /><br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">May Day celebrated: </span>The Joint Action Committee comprising Bank and Insurance Employees'' and Medical Representatives'' Union celebrated May Day on Wednesday here by taking out a procession.<br /><br />The members shouted slogans in support of workers'' unity, jobs and jobs security and also condemned ``anti-labour'''', ``anti-people'''' and ``anti-farmers'''' policies of the central government. K.B.D. Sharma, D. Yakoob, Manjunath, M.R. Hiremath, A.S. Murthy, Mohan Rao, Shankarappa and H. Rao addressed a gathering at LIC office here.<br /></div> </div>