Mangaluru : The BJP will take out a Jana Sankalpa Yatra from Kukke Subrahmanya to Kateel between November 13 and November 22 to draw the attention of people to the “failures” of the Congress government in the State and to oppose the Yettinahole diversion project.

Addressing media here on Wednesday, Pratap Simha Nayak, president, Dakshina Kannada unit of the party, said that meetings would be held at 35 places in the district during the yatra that would cover all taluks.

The yatra would also focus on issues relating to the Kasturirangan Commission Report.

Nalin Kumar Kateel, MP, said that the party would hold a day-long dharna in front of B.R. Ambedkar’s statue on the Town Hall premises here on November 9 to protest against the “deteriorating law and order situation in Dakshina Kannada”.

He said that the district in general and the city in particular have reported seven murders in the past 25-days. “This highlights the total failure of the Home Department and the police,” he said. The MP claimed that the recent turn of events has created a scare among people to walk alone on the streets for the fear of being attacked by miscreants.

Referring to the twin murders at Mangaluru Jail, he said that Home Minister G. Parameshwara should have rushed to the district to take stock of the situation here. It would have given a reassurance to the people about safety measures.

Referring to the State’s responses on Kasturirangan Commission report, he said that B. Ramanath Rai, Minister for Environment, Forest and Ecology, should make public the report of responses submitted by the State to the Union government.

The State government did not conduct any meetings at the village level before finalising its response to the committee report, he said.