Bengaluru: In a strong statement of intention, Chairman of the Minister of Basavaraj Bommai said that it was not a problem even if the Tamil Nadu unit itself had a hunger strike on the controversial reservoir of the Mekedatu balancing along the Cauvery River but Karnataka would continue with the project.
Speaking to reporters, in a reaction to the BJP President and former Cadre officer Karnataka K Annamalai suffered a hunger strike, Bommai said: “I do not care about the strike.
This is political for politics in this issue.
Be it good for DMK, Aiadmk or even my own party , The BJP unit.
Mekedatu reservoir construction is good in our right.
When it comes to state rights, it doesn’t matter who protests in TN.
“Bommai continues to add that the media should not provide so many” hype “for” men ” protest.
“When the Supreme Court itself has said that we have the right to provide drinking water to Bengaluru, and that the surplus water stored in the reservoir will be shared with TN in the years of death, where do our questions violate their rights?” Asked Bommai , CM said Karnataka had spoken with Minister of Jal Shakti Gajendra Singh Shekawat and conveyed him the Stand Stand on this issue.
“We have told him about the attitude of our country along with the delegation of our parliamentary members who met him earlier this week and also urged him to clean the DPR for the project with the Central Water Commission.
There were no questions to return,” he said.