JOIN USFormer Union minister B Janardhan Poojary said that he met Congress National president Sonia Gandhi and explained the ill effects of Yettinahole project.
Addressing media persons at District Congress Office here on Saturday, he said, Gandhi has taken the issue seriously and he also received a call from Sonia Gandhi’s Political Secretary Ahmed Patel inquiring whether he (Poojary) received any call from Chief Minister Siddaramaiah or from the Minister for Irrigation M B Patil.
Stating that he has submitted all the reports pertaining to Yettinahole including the report submitted by IISc scientists Dr Ramachandra T V, Dr Vinay S and Dr Bharath H Aithal (which states that there is only 0.85 tmc water as against 24 tmc claimed), Poojary appealed to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to spare one hour to discuss the pros and cons of the project with the scientists.
Urging chief minister to solve the issue by not harming the interests of both coastal districts and Kolar / Tumakuru and Chikkaballapur districts, Poojary urged MP, ministers and Pejawar seer to appeal to prime minister to stop the project.
Noting that all it requires is a political will to stop the project, Poojary rued that all the ministers concerned do not understand the simple problem, which all common people can understand. Apparently he was referring to Minister for Forest Ramanath Rai,
Member of Parliament M Veerappa Moily and Union Minister D V Sadananda
Gowda.
“It is my moral duty to support the right cause of the people of my district and to bring to your kind notice the dwindling image of the Congress part on account of Yettinahole project, which is nothing but huge public money going down the drain,” states the letter written by Poojary to Sonia Gandhi.