its high time, kannadigas stopped being "Indians first, Kannadigas next". Its just an empty slogan for the rest of the country, especially Tamilians, while we are foolishly following it in letter and spirit.
Even a kid can say that the verdict is grossly unfair. Tamil Nadu's argument has been that it has already developed millions of acres of land for irrigation and these will have to be protected. But the whole point is that the only reason they could develop all those millions of acres was because they did it for the last 100 years at the expense of Ktaka's interests. Purely because these Tamilians asslicked their British lords, they got to have what is called 'prescriptive rights'.
As per this, Ktaka had to take permission to use even its own waters from TN. People are speciously trying to point out that Ktaka only needs to give 192 tmc to TN and not 419. But the point is that Ktaka is giving this 192 tmc from the rains that fall over Karnataka. How much is TN giving from the rains that fall over TN to Ktaka? - ZILCH!!
Karnataka is home to 40% of the basin area and contributes 60% to the water flows. 2/3rd of the basin area in Ktaka is drough prone while less than 1/5 of the basin area is drought prone in TN. Ktaka therefore has even more pressing need for the waters than TN.
Even an arbitrary judgement should have given atleast 50% of the waters to Karnataka. Instead, what we are getting is a little more than 25%. This is injustice at its very sickening worst. The dirty hand of 40 tamil MPs is there for everyone to see. Tamilians should be ashamed of themselves. Their behaviour is worse than even Pakistanis.
We Kannadigas should fight this tooth and nail and if need be we should bring Bengalooru to a grinding halt. That way we can put pressure on the software companies who in turn will put pressure on the central govt.,. It is high time that we turned the heat on.
RE:WAKE UP KANNADIGAS!! ITS TIME TO TURN THE HEAT ON!!!
by vgopinathan on Feb 06, 2007 07:08 PM Permalink
what the hell you are talkin about your explanation is so idiotic, from your scream it is very clear that how "UR Politicians" have changed all your mind sets, there are farmers in both the states and both should be in a win win situtation, but read your blog one more time and see what a crap you have wrote, your are simply adding fuel to the flame, this should not be the case my friend.
RE:WAKE UP KANNADIGAS!! ITS TIME TO TURN THE HEAT ON!!!
by srinivas kanna on Feb 06, 2007 01:18 AM Permalink
Will rediff close this blog so that we can refrain from hearing these nasty comments. I think, we are Indians.
