BS Yediyurappa, Karnataka Chief Minister today stirred a hornet's nest while addressing a Bharatiya Janata Party-Shivsena electoral campaign public meeting at Jatta town belonging to Solapur district in Maharashtra.
The farmers of North Karnataka, including hundreds of women clad in green sarees, have descended in Bengaluru this morning to press for their age-old demand of release of Mahadayi River waters to regions of Belagavi, Dharwad and Gadag districts for drinking purpose.Although they arrived in huge numbers to demand their legitimate right braving the unseasonal rains, the way they were treated by the state administration proved that they were unwelcome guests!
They were prohibited from launching a protest rally to the Freedom Park, which has been set up by the state government to air the views of citizens based on Hyde Park in London. The farmers' disgusted by the stipulation refused to budge and began a sit-in dharna at the railway station itself unmindful of the rains.Later they were permitted to continue the protest march to the Freedom Park but stopped from proceeding towards the Raj Bhavan. A delegation of the agitating farmers left to the Raj Bhavan and handed over a memorandum to Vajubhai Vala, Governor of the state.
What appears intriguing here is the fact that the same Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) while in opposition had gone all out of the way to hammer the Siddaramaiah led Congress and later the HD Kumaraswamy led Janata Dal-Secular(JD-S)-Congress alliance governments for alleged failure to resolve the long prolonged Mahadayi River waters dispute.Both at the previous Parliamentary and Assembly general elections, the saffron party leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP president Amit Shah and a host of many others belonging to the state were more than vocal to claim that they would waste no time to settle the water dispute.
Yes, just like many more assurances this also happened to be another one in spite of the same party governments in the state, Goa and the centre.
-Manohar Yadavatti
The lone saffron party mass leader of the neighbouring state gave a clarion call to Kannadigas settled in the bordering districts to vote for the Shivsena candidate in the ensuing Maharashtra Assembly elections to ensure fulfilment of their long-standing demands including release of Krishna River waters from the Alamatti dam of Vijayapura district.Perhaps it was a magnanimous gesture for a chief minister of an adjoining state to declare the release of water for the parched areas of Solapur district. But the timing proved to be unwise.
The farmers of North Karnataka, including hundreds of women clad in green sarees, have descended in Bengaluru this morning to press for their age-old demand of release of Mahadayi River waters to regions of Belagavi, Dharwad and Gadag districts for drinking purpose.Although they arrived in huge numbers to demand their legitimate right braving the unseasonal rains, the way they were treated by the state administration proved that they were unwelcome guests!
They were prohibited from launching a protest rally to the Freedom Park, which has been set up by the state government to air the views of citizens based on Hyde Park in London. The farmers' disgusted by the stipulation refused to budge and began a sit-in dharna at the railway station itself unmindful of the rains.Later they were permitted to continue the protest march to the Freedom Park but stopped from proceeding towards the Raj Bhavan. A delegation of the agitating farmers left to the Raj Bhavan and handed over a memorandum to Vajubhai Vala, Governor of the state.
What appears intriguing here is the fact that the same Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) while in opposition had gone all out of the way to hammer the Siddaramaiah led Congress and later the HD Kumaraswamy led Janata Dal-Secular(JD-S)-Congress alliance governments for alleged failure to resolve the long prolonged Mahadayi River waters dispute.Both at the previous Parliamentary and Assembly general elections, the saffron party leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP president Amit Shah and a host of many others belonging to the state were more than vocal to claim that they would waste no time to settle the water dispute.
Yes, just like many more assurances this also happened to be another one in spite of the same party governments in the state, Goa and the centre.
-Manohar Yadavatti
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