Chief Secretary Sudhakar Rao on Thursday asserted that the State would would move the Supreme Court to set right the “injustice” done to Karnataka by commencing work on the Hogenekal project by Tamil Nadu government.
Speaking to media persons after the inaugurating the first convention of the Karnataka State Government Employees Parishat, Rao said that legal experts at Delhi have been consulted and are awaiting their views.
The deputy commissioners of Bangalore City and Chamarajnagar have been instructed to maintain law and order. Later in the day Rao held a meeting with senior officials of the Irrigation Department regarding the Hogenekal project.
Meanwhile senior BJP leaders K S Eshwarappa and Basavaraj Bommai have warned both the Centre and also Governor Rameshwar Thakur that there would be a major law and order problem in the State if the TN government went ahead with the Hogenekal project.
A delegation of BJP leaders would soon meet the President of India as well as Prime Minister to persuade them to direct the TN government to stop the work.
The BJP leaders accused the TN government of taking up an irrigation project in the garb of a drinking water project at Hogenekal. “A commission set up for surveying the land, has not yet submitted it’s report. But the records available say that the land where the project is coming up belongs to Karnataka. Besides the Union Ministry for Environment has not accorded it’s approval. If such illegal activity continues, there will be a law and order problem”, they cautioned.
Eshwarappa also demanded State Congress leaders to enunciate their stand on the Hogenekal project. “Instead of utilising their energy for trying to postpone the assembly polls, the Congress leaders should also fight for the issues concerning the state. Moreover what does AICC President Sonia Gandhi, who spoke against state’s interest in the Kalsa-Bhanduri Project, has to say about the Hogenkal project? The State Congress leaders should use their influence for pressurising the Centre to stop the project”, he asserted.
