MLAs play truant
As many as 15 BJP MLAs, representing the flood and heavy rain-affected constituencies of north Karnataka are in Hyderabad.
They all left for Hyderabad on October 28. And have not yet decided when to return to their constituencies.
Absence of MLAs in the constituencies may not affect the flood relief works totally. But the affected people expect their presence as their intervention may speed up the relief works. A senior officer of Raichur district said, the officialdom would continue to do the assigned job, no matter whether the MLA was present or absent.
Following are the legislators from the flood-hit constituencies who are in Reddy camp: Somalingappa (Siruguppa), Shivanagouda Naik (Deodurga), Manappa Vajjal (Lingsugur), Pratapgoud Patil (Maski), Ramanna Lamani (Gadag), Kalakappa Bandi (Ron), Shankar Patil Munekoppa (Navalgund), Seema Masuti (Dharwad), Anand Asnotikar (Karwar), Renukacharya (Honnali), Narasim- hanayak (Surapur), S K Bellubbi (Basavana Bagewadi), Veeranna Charantimath (Bagalkot), Raju Kage (Kagwad) and Balachandra Jarkiholi (Arabhavi).
