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The BJP and JD (S) leaders are opposing the Bidadi Township Project purely for governmental reasons, arsenic they are incapable to tolerate D.K. Shivakumar becoming Chief Minister, said H.C. Balakrishna, Magadi MLA.
Under mode for long
“The onshore acquisition process was nether mode adjacent erstwhile Siddaramaiah was Chief Minister and immoderate farmers were opposing it. Why did H.D. Kumaraswamy and R. Ashoka not travel guardant to combat for these farmers astatine that time?” questioned the MLA, speaking to presspersons successful Bidadi connected Wednesday (June 17).
Leaders from “our community” (referring to Vokkaliga) successful different parties are incapable to judge Mr. Shivakumar arsenic Chief Minister, helium alleged. “They expected the Congress to beryllium destroyed by interior conflicts. They believed that Mr. Siddaramaiah would ne'er relinquish powerfulness and that Mr. Shivakumar would ne'er go Chief Minister. They are incapable to digest the information that Mr. Siddaramaiah handed implicit power,” helium said.
Mr. Balakrishna stressed that the task was not initiated by Mr. Shivakumar but by Mr. Kumaraswamy successful 2006. “After our authorities came to power, farmers submitted petitions demanding either the removal of the Red Zone classification oregon compensation. It was successful effect to those demands that this task was revived,” helium said.
‘No longer agricultural’
Mr. Balakrishna claimed that astir of the onshore successful Bidadi is “no longer agricultural” but already been converted into existent property layouts. “Had Mr. Kumaraswamy not declared it a Red Zone, each of it would person fallen into the hands of the existent property mafia by now. Land conversion has not been imaginable due to the fact that of the Red Zone classification, and these areas person remained cultivation land,” helium said.
In the past, section farmers had challenged akin statements by Mr. Balakrishna and invited him to their villages to prosecute successful a debate.
