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Congress scuttling dam project: BJP

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speech: D.V. Sadananda Gowda, president of the State unit of the BJP, addressing party workers at B.C. Road on Wednesday.

B.C. ROAD (DAKSHINA KANNADA DISTRICT): D.V. Sadananda Gowda, president of the State unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party, has alleged that the Congress is putting pressure on the Government not to release Rs. 40 crore for the proposed second vented dam across the Nethravathi at Thumbay.

Addressing party workers here on Wednesday, Mr. Gowda said the BJP-Janata Dal (Secular) coalition government had given administrative approval for the project. After the coalition Government lost power, the project was stalled. The Government now was not showing any interest in the project, he charged.

Mr. Gowda alleged that the Congress was preventing the Government from taking up the project.

This was because the BJP had won the elections to the Mangalore City Corporation. “It is not right for any party to indulge in politics with regard to development works,” he said.

Mr. Gowda claimed that people in the State were not happy with the functioning of Governor Rameshwar Thakur. The Congress was putting pressure on the Centre and the Governor to ensure that Assembly elections were delayed.

He said the Congress thought that it would win the elections as the BJP would not get sympathy votes. But the BJP would face the elections on the plank of development.

Mr. Gowda said the chairman of Railway Board had assured him that day train service between Bangalore and Mangalore via Arsikere would be started by March-end. V.S. Acharya, former Minister, said the Government should come out with a weekly report on the progress of work at the Shiradi Ghat, and it should be made public.

Ganesh Karnik and Shoba Karandlaje, MLCs; R. Ashok, B. Nagaraja Shetty, former Ministers; J. Krishna Palemar, N. Yogish Bhat, T. Shakuntala Shetty, K. Padmanabha Kottari, former MLAs; and other leaders of the party were present.

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