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Leader of Opposition successful the Karnataka Legislative Assembly R. Ashok demanded that the State authorities scrap the projected Bidadi Township project, arguing that it was unnecessary and would pb to nonaccomplishment of productive farmland.
While championed by Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, BJP’s ally, Union Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy, has been opposing the project, though it was during his tenure successful 2007 that the task was mooted.
Mr. Ashok said, portion the Leader of Opposition successful the Lok Sabha and elder Congress person Rahul Gandhi objected to projects successful the Greater Nicobar, arguing that it volition pb to biology destruction, helium remained soundless connected Bidadi, wherever thousands of acres of fertile onshore was being acquired and lakhs of trees cut.
‘Oppose garbage tenders’
Claiming that Bengaluru’s ₹39,437-crore worthy Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM) tenders would load the metropolis for decades, Mr. Ashok urged citizens, nonmigratory payment associations, students, and elder citizens to commencement a letter-writing run to the Governor and the President against the “garbage tender scam”.
“The city’s garbage is becoming a root of income for the Congress precocious command, portion Bengaluru’s residents are suffering,” helium said.
