Bengaluru: The controversial Mekedatu inyatra, who has seen Slugfest politics for a week between Congress and BJP, began on Sunday without drama because the state government allowed more than 20,000 congregations in the middle of the night hours and restrictions of Covid-19.
Despite threatening legal action against the organizers, the BJP government chose to allow events to take place to pre-emptu friction anything.
With the slogan ‘Namma Neeru, Namma my right’ (our water, our right), the premiere of Hyatra was held in Sangama, a meeting of Cauvery and the Arkavati River, in Kanakapura Taluk.
March 10 days which include 60 assembly constitution will lead to public rallies in the national university yard, Basavanagudi, Bengaluru, on January 19.
Claiming the ‘Apolitical’ rally, Congress, led by the President of the State President of the DK Shivakumar, has organized in Hatyatra, requires both the central government and the state to implement a project that imagines to provide drinking water to Bengaluru Urban and its surroundings by storing the Cauvery River surplus in the reservoir to be built In Mekedatu at Kanakapura Taluk from Ramanagara District, about 90 km from Bengaluru.
“The government wants to clamp in Hylamatra through weekend hours.
They must realize that they will never be able to stop us.
The river flowing, blowing wind and shining sun cannot be stopped.
Likewise, said Shivakumar.” .
The government has, through the administrative district of Ramanagara, issued a banned movement forbid people from being in line with the weekend curved at Karnataka.
However, the authorities did a little to stop the event on Sunday.
Interior Minister Araga Jnanendra said the government had issued a notice due to violations of norms of pandemic.
“We take appropriate legal action because the district authority has served a notification of the organizers of inyatra with the provisions of the disaster management law,” he added.
Explain the parade as “no more than political gimick”, Chairman of the Bukavaraj Bommai Minister said Congress tried to hide his failure to implement the project when the party was in power.
“With the selection of assembly approaching, the congress has built to launch inyatra.
We have seen what the party does and the leaders after holding a diayatra to Krishna Basin in 2013.
You can fool someone once, but not all the time,” he said.
Senior Congress leaders, including the Parameswara, RV Deshpande, HK Patil and M Veerappa Moony, participated in the parade on Sunday which covered 14.5 km before stopping for the night at Dodda Alandaalli, near Kanakapura.