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Deve Gowda is trying to break Janata Dal (U): Basavaraj Ingin

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The Janata Dal (S) chief accused of luring party leaders and legislators to his party

GULBARGA: Basavaraj Ingin, vice-president of the State unit of the Janata Dal (United), on Tuesday accused former Prime Minister and President of the Janata Dal (Secular) H.D. Deve Gowda of indulging in poaching other parties and attempting to break the Janata Dal (U) by luring senior party leaders and legislators with promises of making them Ministers.

Referring to the party MLC B.T. Chennabasappa joining the Janata Dal (S), Mr. Ingin told presspersons here that Mr. Deve Gowda, who had become jittery after open rebellion against him and his sons by former Deputy Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, was luring the fence sitters of other parties to bolster the strength of his own political party.

Mr. Ingin said that the party now proposes to file a complaint with the Chairman of the Legislative Council against Mr. Chennabasappa to disqualify him under the anti-defection law.

On flood relief works, Mr. Ingin charged the State Government of failing to take up relief work in the affected areas a month after floods in Belgaum, Bagalkot, Bijapur, Gulbarga and Raichur districts.

The promised compensationis yet to reach the victims, he added.

Mr. Ingin said that apart from the non-payment of the compensation to those who had lost their houses, the Government has not taken any effort to rebuild the affected villages and shift the villagers from the villages, which face perennial threat of floods.

He said the Government has failed to protect the interests of the State in the Alamatti dam issue and had not rejected the letter written by the Union Water Resource Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunshi asking the State to reduce the storage level to 509 m as against its full height of 519.6 m.

He was also critical of the Union and State governments for not conceding the long pending demand of the backward regions of the State for the amendment of the Article 371 to include the State in the schedule to provide special reservation in employment and educational opportunities to the people of those regions.

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