Flex blaming MLAs, DVS, Moily for water crises put up in Mangalore

May 14: Whole of Dakshina Kannada district, especially Mangalore city is facing acute water crisis. The environmentalists have put up banners in different parts of the city and in the district, condemning the injustice meted out in the name of Yettinahole project. The Yettinahole project is aimed at supplying water to parched districts.
It is seen that in the banners, a warning has been issued to all the eight MLAs from Dakshina Kannada district— S Angara (Sullia), Sanjeeva Matandoor (Puttur), Harish Poonja (Belthangady), Umanath Kotian (Moodbidri), Dr Bharath Shetty (Mangaluru North), Vedavyasa Kamath (Mangaluru South), U T Khader (Mangaluru) and Rajesh Naik (Bantwal). These banners having photographs of all the eight MLAs from the district reads as “The voters elected you not to roam in
a car worth Rs 40 lakh. There is no water for the people of the district. The MLAs must sit on a dharna in front of Vidhana Soudha opposing the Yettinahole project. If not possible, tender your resignation and sit on fast unto death and prove that you are genuine Janasevaks.” Thesehave been put up at Hampankatta, Pumpwell, Kottara and few other areas in the city. In another banner, there is a photo of ChikkaballapurMP Veerappa Moily and Union Minister Sadananda Gowda.