Bengaluru: Politics in Karnataka has ranged the river – Cauvery, Krishna and Mahadayi – in the past.
Heating for assembly elections, scheduled for early next year, the three major parties are looking to use water as a trump card on other burning topics such as inflation, employment and rural troublesome.
Water problems remain behind the burner even though the high promise made by the run-up party for 2018 assembly polls, but has come to the middle of the stage again and the possibility of finding mention in the BJP, Congress and JD (s) manifesto.
While the congress launched inyatra – which is now suspended – suppressing for the implementation of the drinking water project, JD (s) will launch Jaladhare Ratha on January 26 to highlight “injustice” dropped to Karnataka by the government both the country and the center of implementing irrigation projects.
The powerful BJP is a big bet in getting permission for the old Mekedatu-Pending and Kalasa-Banduri (Mahadayi) project months before voting and laid a greater emphasis on the implementation of the Jeevan Mission’s mainstay center which aims to provide a connection to the water tap in the regional rustic.
Sapna Nagaraj, water expert, said, “Even though water is always considered important for economic and social life, now it is so for political survival too.” Citing India Sampan Rajendra Singh, he said, “In addition to cooling thirst, water also picks up people.” Voter priorities show data that the importance of water problems for voters has increased significantly in recent years.
This was emphasized in the All-India survey conducted by the association for democratic reform on the issues of governance and voter behavior in 2018 in 534 electoral districts of Lok Sabha, involving more than 2.7 respondents lakh.
Drink the third water, after a better job opportunity and better health, on the top priority list.
Their legislators and political rivals compete with each other to provide drinking water in their electoral district.
Almost every MLA and prospective candidates prefer to handle drinking water problems even by spending money from their own pockets.
Emotional Political observer Issuesome said Congress swept up Mekmedatu like that emotional problem for people, especially farmers on the state border.
They also said the battle of a long-winded law has been used as political currencies in the past it also became a deflecting attention from other issues.