Villagers have fought for long, and in vain

“We have tried our best to stop stone quarrying on this hill. We held protests and later tried installing a Hanuman statue on the hill. But nothing has worked. The politicians and the bureaucracy are hand in glove with the miners,” lamented Venugopal Reddy, a resident of Hirenagavalli, the village where an accidental explosion at a stone quarry killed six in the early hours of Tuesday.