Badami, Karnataka, May 5 : Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has cheated people of Karnataka by not intervening in Mahadayi river water sharing issue.
Sharply reacting to Modi's statement at an election meeting at Tumakuru earlier in the day,
Mr Siddaramaiah told newsmen here that "despite appealing to him to intervene by leading an all party delegation he failed to act and BJP legislators and MPs from Karnataka also did not speak even a single word during the meeting."
He said that Mr Modi as Prime Minister has every right to intervene and could have convened a meeting of Goa, Karnataka and Maharashtra Chief Ministers and solved the issue, but he did not do so and failed to give an assurance but now in the election meeting he is assuring with only aim of wooing voters in the May 12 election to Legislative Assembly.
Mr Siddaramaiah said that "Prime Minister late Indira Gandhi had intervened when Telagu-Ganga issue was raised to provide drinking water to Chennai. In the same spirit as Prime Minister Modi should have taken steps when the Mahadayi issue came up to solve the severe drinking water faced in three districts of North Karnataka. At least on humanitarian ground the issue should have been taken up and solved."
The Chief Minister said that he wrote more than four letters to the Prime Minister appealing him to intervene but he did not respond. The issue is mainly between Goa and Karnataka and Goa Chief Minister was not willing for discussion over the table and hence he was approached to solve the issue as the State was reeling under severe drought situation due to failure of rain for consecutive three years.UNI
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