Mangaluru: District AAP committee staged protest against the negligence of MP’MLA’s in Mahadayi river dispute, on Wednesday in front of DC Office.

Addressing the gathering Udupi and Dakshina Kannada district in-charge Shanthala Damle said that it is a matter of great regret that the Police have brutally beaten up the old, infirm, elderly and pregnant women of Yamlur and Annigeri villages in the Navalagunda and Naragunda area. Aam Aadmi Party demands that the Home Minister should stop misguiding people of the state and ask for an unconditional apology for the police brutality.

“There are only 2 options left with people of Karnataka to get Mahadayi Issue solves, one is by the tribunal & other is by the interference of Prime Minister & turning the tables in favor of Karnataka. But even when the whole area of Mumbai Karnataka is in flames due to Mahadayi agitation, the 17 MPs of BJP could have easily approached the PM with a request to intervene and settle the matter out of court by applying various pressures including threat to resign their seats. It is disgusting that these MPs are trying to justify the partisan act of the PM. Shamefully, the remaining Congress and JD(S) MPs did not bother to raise this issue in Parliament either,” she said.

She further said that however even after AAP delegation gave it’s suggestion to CM Siddaramaiah and the people of North Karnataka have been waging a relentless struggle for water since 2002, he has failed to understand the seriousness of the matter, making the state argue without facts and figures, thereby failing to impress upon the Tribunal of it’ drinking water requirement. AAP feels that this has proved that the CM is as good as dead for the people of the state.

Rohan Siri, Rajendra Kumar, Arjun, Arun Bangera and others were present.