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MP and erstwhile Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has blamed the Congress for the hold successful the implementation of the Upper Krishna Project (UKP).
Adressing presspersons successful Bagalkot connected Saturday, Mr. Bommai said that inatead of politicising the issue, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar should guarantee due ineligible arguments were made successful the Supreme Court to unafraid a favorable bid for the State.
“Phase 1 of the task received orders backmost successful 1975 pursuing the Bachawat Tribunal award, erstwhile the Congress was successful powerfulness astatine the Centre. However, it took 14 years conscionable to hole the DPR,” helium said.
Mr. Bommai said helium would merchandise comparative information connected the advancement made during the Congress and the non-Congress governments. In fact, the non-Congress governments had contributed the astir to implementing the UKP, helium claimed.
On Congress MLA Basavaraj Rayaraddi’s connection that the Centre had not issued a gazette notification, helium said Mr. Rayaraddi often forgot facts. Mr. Rayaraddi had earlier claimed the Krishna B Scheme was not feasible, yet aboriginal inaugurated a task wherever h2o was supplied to his constituency, helium said.
Mr. Bommai explained that since Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, and Karnataka person each approached the Supreme Court, the substance is nether hearing. Arguments from 3 States person been completed, and erstwhile each hearings conclude, the tribunal’s bid volition beryllium treated arsenic a Supreme Court decree.
Leader of Opposition R. Ashok and others were besides present.
