'Accept Sudhakar's challenge with love,' says D K Shivakumar on providing water from Yettinahole to Chikkaballapur & Kolar districts

Bengaluru: Picking up the gauntlet thrown by Chikkaballapur MP Dr K Sudhakar, Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar said he would provide water from Yettinahole to Chikkaballapur and Kolar districts.

Sudhakar had earlier said that he would call Shivakumar 'Bhagiratha' if the latter could provide water from the Yettinahole project to the two districts in two years.

Speaking to reporters at his Sadashivanagar residence, the deputy chief minister said: "I accept his challenge with love and respect. It's my duty and responsibility to deliver Yettinahole."

Asked if Sudhakar had been praising him of late after the Justice Cunha commission submitted its report on alleged covid 19 irregularities to the chief minister, he said: "I don't know about the Covid report. I was not part of the previous Cabinet meeting that discussed it since I was in Yettinahole."

He lashed out at Union Minister for Consumer Affairs and New and Renewable Energy Pralhad Joshi for stating that the Congress had released a photograph of incarcerated actor Darshan smoking a cigarette to distract people from the Valmiki Corporation Scam.

"I appeal to Joshi with folded hands on Ganesha Chathurthi to get us approval for the Mahadayi project and funds for the Upper Bhadra project."

I will speak to the CM within a fortnight and discuss the nature of our fight for Mahadayi, Shivakumar added.