Modi accuses Congress for politicising Mahadayi water disupute

Team Udayavani, May 6, 2018, 11:14 AM IST

Gadag: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday rebuked the Congress party for politicizing the issue of Mahadayi river water offering to neighboring Goa. 

Modi tending to a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rally in Gadag “Congress is deluding individuals for the sake of Mahadayi and is just politicizing the issue. Amid a 2007 Goa Assembly election crusade speech, at that point Congress President Sonia Gandhi had guaranteed Goa that Mahadayi stream water won’t be shared,”

The Congress was just demonstrating its “true nature” by politicizing the issue in front of the upcoming May 12 Karnataka Assembly election, affirmed Modi.

Blaming the Congress for “looting” the southern state and being “detached” to the depleting natural resources, Modi affirmed that the party had set up a colossal tank in Karnataka to store the looted cash, with a pipeline to Delhi to finance the party. Having lost elections in a few states where it already held power, the Congress was frantic to win Karnataka, Modi said. 

“Congress is very stressed over losing Karnataka on the grounds that in the event that they lose control in this state, they’re worried about what will happen to the party’s leaders in Delhi.” 

Karnataka has been requesting that Goa since 2001 discharge 7.6 tmcft (thousand million cubic feet) of the stream water to meet drinking and water system needs of its kin in the four dry season inclined areas in particular – Gadag, Bagalkote, Belagavi and Dharwad – in the state’s northwest district. 

BJP President Amit Shah in February told a media instructions in Kalaburagi, around 630km north of Bengaluru, that the party was focused on settling the water imparting issue to Goa on the off chance that they won the election. 

“I ensure the general population of Karnataka that we will resolve the Mahadayi water issue with Goa in the event that we win the upcoming election. We will discover an answer not long after subsequent to coming to power in the state,” Shah had said.