Budget session: Compol issues prohibitory orders around Vidhana Soudha from March 4 to 31

Bengaluru: Bengaluru city Police Commissioner Kamal Pant has imposed prohibitory orders in a 2-kilometer radius of Vidhana Soudha from March 4 to 31.

The prohibitory orders have been imposed to provide security cover for the sessions in both the houses and the possibility of protests and rallies to disturb law and order, the police said.

The month-long budget session of the Karnataka state legislature will begin on March 4 and Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa, who holds the finance portfolio, will present his 8th budget on March 8 in the legislative assembly.