BELAGAVI: Suspended Congress legislator A.S.Patil Nadahalli, who shared the dais with top leaders of the state unit of BJP at a convention on agriculture here on Tuesday, lambasted the state government for not launching projects in north Karnataka during the last two years.
Addressing farmers along with leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council, K.S. Eshwarappa, Suresh Angadi, MP, and former DGP Shankar Bidari, he said: “North Karnataka is the biggest drought-affected stretch in the entire country. Legislators here want the government to complete all pending irrigation projects of north Karnataka. It is opportune time for all legislators from north Karnataka to uphold self-respect,” he said adding that because the government continued to neglect the region, he had to speak up against his own party government.
Though people of the region were entitled to over 1000 TMC feet of water, they were suffering because of the state government’s callousness, he said and blamed the government for worsening state of affairs in the region.
Mr Patil said, he never intended to divide the state but earnestly demanding the government to set the regional imbalance in order. “I want to ask leaders why they brand farmers as drunkards when they commit suicide while those ministers and legislators who drink expensive, branded alcohol in posh hotels are not called drunkards,” he asked.
