Chamarajanagar: Accusing the Centre of delaying permission to Karnataka’s Mekedatu water project due to pressure from BJP leaders of Tamil Nadu, Opposition Leader and former Chief Minister Siddharamaiah appealed the people of Chamarajanagar to take part in large numbers for Congress party’s Mekedatu Padayatra that starts from Jan. 9.
Addressing the party’s Mekedatu awareness and Congress membership registration rally at Chamarajanagar yesterday, Siddharamaiah alleged that Tamil Nadu BJP leader Annamalai is on a dharna against Karnataka’s Mekedatu Cauvery water project that is planned to come up at Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border and this was preventing the Centre from according sanction for the project.
