Mahadayi dispute: 2 bandhs in 11 days to hit Bengaluru

HUBBALLI/BENGALURU: Pro-Kannada organizations and farmers have called for two bandhs in Karnataka over the next two weeks, in a bid to get the Mahadayi river dispute resolved.
While the January 25 bandh will be seen statewide, any other bandh will be organized in Bengaluru on February four to coincide with the consult with of PM Narendra Modi, who is scheduled to attend the state BJP Parivarthana rally in the city. The intent: To drive Narendra Modi to interfere in the river dispute.

In Hubballi, Kannada Okkuta president Vatal Nagaraj faced the ire of Mahadayi and Kannada activists for now not taking them into self assurance when he gave a call for a Karnataka bandh on January 25.



Vatal, who wanted to express his harmony with the farmers of North Karnataka, was in Hubballi to transient the native media concerning the proposed bandh to mark their protest in opposition to the lengthen in solving the Mahadayi disaster. However, midway into the conference, members of the Kalasa-Banduri Samanvaya Samiti, Hubballi, and Kannada activists barged into the corridor and created a ruckus.

Jan 25 bandh isn't related: Activists

Kannada activists Amrut Ijari, Mahesh Pattar, Shekaraiah Hiremath and several other others expressed anger and puzzled Nagaraj: "Did you take our consent before giving a bandh call on January 25? We will not support it. Our intention of calling a bandh on January 27 was to pressure PM Modi to intervene in the Mahadayi issue, as he was to visit the state on January 28. Frequent bandhs are causing a lot of inconvenience to the public, who are now upset."

Modi cancelled his previous scheduled consult with to Bengaluru on January 28, mentioning his unavailability because of approaching central executive budget meetings, and glued February four because the date to participate in the concluding match of the state BJP's Parivarthana rally at Palace Grounds in the city.


Kannada activists mentioned with the PM postponing his consult with to Bengaluru, a bandh on January 25 isn't related. Not able to call off the January 25 bandh, Vatal nonetheless gave in to the demands of locals and added that Kannada activists will, actually, give a boost to and contact for any other bandh on February


four. He mentioned: "The all-Karnataka bandh will be observed on January 25, to pressure all political parties to solve the Mahadayi issue at the earliest. On February 4, a bandh will be observed only in Bengaluru to pressure PM Modi to intervene in the dispute."


On February four, thousands of activists and farmers from North Karnataka are because of make their approach to Bengaluru to gherao Modi.



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