Opposition leader R Ashoka (BJP) urged Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to make it clear if he attached more importance to the alliance with the DMK or river water interests of the state.
Deputy CM DK Shivakumar had led a padayatra to Mekedatu during the Covid-19 pandemic, but the resistance to it has come from its own political ally. He urged the CM to take all Congress MLAs to Tamil Nadu and stage a protest demonstration against the DMK's election manifesto.
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Shivakumar, however, maintained that there was no change in the Congress party's stand and would pursue the reservoir project to provide drinking water to Bengaluru. He told the media that what the DMK has said was its political wish, not that of the INDIA alliance. The project was not one for Karnataka alone, but it belonged to the entire country as people from everywhere were living in Bengaluru.
The BJP and Congress have been engaged in a war of words with Bengaluru's water crisis escalating. Ashoka had recently tweeted pictures of Tamil Nadu dams brimming with Cauvery water after the ruling Congress allegedly released water from the KRS.
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