Karnataka ready to implement third phase of Upper Krishna irrigation project but BJP MPs are scared of PM, says Minister M. B. Patil

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Large and Medium Industries Minister M.B. Patil

Large and Medium Industries Minister M.B. Patil | Photo Credit: ALLEN EGENUSE J

“Karnataka is acceptable to instrumentality the 3rd signifier of the Upper Krishna irrigation Project (UKP) if the Union Government were to contented a gazette notification towards this effect,” M. B. Patil, Minister for Large and Medium Industries and Infrastructure Development, said connected March 5. He had arrived successful Belagavi to enactment successful the inauguration of a Raja Gopura successful the Sri Veerabhadreshwar temple successful Yadur.

“The Union Government has already allowed america to spell up with the process of expanding the tallness of the Almatti dam to 524 metres, and to instrumentality up the related tasks of onshore acquisition, civilian work, similar fixing gates and gathering canals,” helium said.

“The State Cabinet has taken a historical determination to hole maximum magnitude for onshore nonaccomplishment compensation. This volition beryllium implemented erstwhile the enactment starts. However, we request assistance from our MPs, similar Jagadish Shettar, Basavaraj Bommai and others, for this. It is the work of BJP MPs from Karnataka to attack Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a petition to contented a gazette notification to alteration Karnataka to spell up with the work. But our MPs are not doing it. It seems BJP MPs are mortally acrophobic of gathering the Prime Minister and putting distant adjacent genuine demands of the State they represent. It is unfortunate,” Mr. Patil said.

Published - March 05, 2026 02:58 p.m. IST

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