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Poojary pulls up Siddu govt over Yettinahole, private member’s bill

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Mangaluru: Former union minister B Janaradhan Poojary slammed the state government yet again for being adamant on executing the Yettinahole project.

Making a statement in the legislative assembly on Thursday, Nov 19, Water Resource Minister MB Patil had said that the project has been suspended till Dec 7 to avoid a stay from the Green Bench of the Supreme Court. The Karnataka government has filed an affidavit agreeing to stop the work till the next hearing. “The Tribunal has already stated that it has issued a stay order on the project. However, the government is not ready to accept it,” Poojary said.

Speaking further he said, “The government has already expressed its unwillingness and inefficiency to quash the project. Even the BJP seems to be hand-in-glove with the government. If MP Nalin Kumar Kateel is against the project, I appeal to him to take a delegation to the Prime Minister and demand to shelve the project.”

Poojary said that the people of drought-hit Kolar were also convinced that the Yettinahole project will not serve their cause and the protests by doctors and students among others in Kolar seeking permanent relief measures in the district was a witness to it. “However, the ministers are not keen on shelving the project. If the Yettinahole project is executed, the Congress may lose the next election in the state,” he asserted.

Poojary questions private member’s bill

A private member’s bill was recently tabled in Karnataka assembly. The bill was submitted by Congress MLA and former Speaker Ramesh Kumar. He urged the state government to pass a law which would discourage lavish weddings in the state.

Questioning this, Poojary said that an individual gets married only once in life and that it is a given that one should be allowed to spend as per his/her desire. The government cannot infringe one’s privacy in this regard, he said. Instead, he demanded that the government should question the administrators who spend a huge chunk of government money on decorating their houses.

Rahul Gandhi’s citizenship row, a cheap tactic

Touting the BJP’s move to question Rahul Gandhi’s Indian citizenship to be a shameful act on the part of the opposition, Poojary said that Rahul was the grandson of Indira Gandhi, who sacrificed her life for the country. He further said that raking up an issue over a clerical error was bad to politics, adding that the BJP had not learnt a lesson from their recent Bihar poll debacle.

It may be recalled that accusing Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi of declaring himself a British citizen to float a firm in that country, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, demanding that the Congress MP should be stripped of his Indian citizenship as well as his parliamentary membership.

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