Curtailment of bus services operated by the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) resulted in chaos at the Majestic bus-stand on Tuesday evening. Passengers were seen making desperate attempts to get on the buses and had heated arguments with staff of the corporation for not running adequate buses.
To clear the rush, the KSRTC was forced to run city buses of the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) on intra-State long-distance routes. People were seen standing and travelling.
The KSRTC provided 4,100 buses for election duty, which was more than half the fleet size of the KSRTC. An official of the KSRTC said that over 500 buses of the BMTC were operated on long-distance routes such as Davangere, Yadgir, Chitradurga, Bagalkot, Raichur, and Ballari.
