With the Congress march to implement the Mekedatu drinking water project entering Bengaluru, KPCC president DK Shivakumar urged the residents of Bengaluru to cooperate and bear with the traffic-related issues for three days, while he urged the Flex Criticized the BBMP for being biased in removal. , He said, ‘I apologize to the people that the padyatra will cause inconvenience. However, I seek your cooperation for three days for Cauvery drinking water for the next 50 years,” he told reporters on Tuesday before entering the city of padyatra. “The padayatra is for the betterment of the city and I invite people to take part in it. We have revived support from industrial workers, apartment dwellers and other organizations. To prevent traffic jams around Basavanagudi on March 3, when the padayatra will end at the National College grounds, he urged the workers to use the Metro, which would reduce overcrowding. He also said that the Congress has reduced the number of padyatra days from five to three days to assist the government in presenting the state budget.
On Water Resources Minister Govind Karjol’s statement that the padyatra would affect Karnataka’s case in the Supreme Court, he said: “There is no problem with the implementation of the drinking water project. The Chief Minister himself has said this. He should discuss with the officials and the CM. Mr. Karjol does not know the struggle. He had just participated in LK Advani’s Rath Yatra. Accusing the government of reducing footfall and police being biased, he pointed out that despite the Center asking states to lift the COVID-19 restrictions, the state did not do so. He said, “The government allowed a funeral procession in Shivamogga and public functions were being allowed. Why are the restrictions only for us?” He said that Congress is not afraid of matters. Meanwhile, reacting to Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s allegations that the padyatra was politically motivated, Leader of Opposition and former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said, “There is no politics in water. We are doing this to wake up the government as it has not done anything while in power.” He said, “Mr. Bommai has not participated in any struggle and does not know the importance of padyatra.”
Gyanendra ineligible for the post of Home Minister: DKS
Commenting that Home Minister Araga Gyanendra was “unfit to hold the post of Home Minister”, Mr Shivakumar on Tuesday accused Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister KS Eshwarappa of being responsible for the violence in Shivamogga. The Congress leader reacted to Mr. Gyanendra’s statement that “he is unfit to be home minister,” adding that Mr. Eshwarappa went to Shivamogga as a local MLA to offer condolences to the family of the deceased right-wing activist Harsh. Were. Mr. Shivakumar said, “Mr. Eshwarappa should have visited the house instead of participating in the procession when prohibitory orders were in force. He is responsible for the violence.” On the Congress leaders not going to the residence of the deceased Harsh, he said that he would go to meet them after the end of the padyatra.