Mangalore: We are helpless, says U T Khadar on Yettinahole project
Shreyas H S
For Daijiword.com
Mangalore, Feb 7: Even as district Congress unit continues to vociferously oppose the skewed Netravati diversion or Yettinahole project, health minister U T Khadar has asserted that the foundation stone for the project will be laid at the earliest, and that the ministers from the district were 'helpless' as the decision was taken in the state Assembly.
This revelation was made by the minister on Thursday February 6 in an interview to a local channel.
Soon after he made the statement, daijiworld contacted U T Khadar for further explanation. When asked what would be the plight of the people likely to be affected by the project, he blatantly put all the onus on erstwhile chief minister D V Sadananda Gowda.
In an apparent defense of Veerappa Moily and S M Krishna, the key Congress politicians who played a role in the project, he said people have to question Sadananda Gowda for clearing the project, and not the Congress government.
On whether the project had obtained a clearance certificate, he said the project has acquired all the necessary certificates and it would be implemented soon. It may be recalled that the foundation ceremony had been postponed by CM Siddaramaiah for reason of delay in acquiring the clearance certificate from the environment ministry.
He also said that it was Paramasivaiya's plan of 2001 that had encountered problem from the authority concerned, and not the Yettinahole project. "We are with the people of Karnataka but we have no option left but to implement the project," he added.
U T Khadar said he and other minsters of the district are helpless because the project was passed with consensus in the assembly. When quizzed on his party colleagues' opposition to the project, he simply said, "We are helpless".
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