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PANJIM: Extending support to Leader of Opposition Digamber Kamat’s demand for a one-day special assembly session on Mhadei issue, MGP MLA Ramakrishna (Sudin) Dhavalikar on Friday said that the House should resolve to resign en masse if the Centre fails to withdraw the consent granted to Karnataka’s Kalasa-Banduri drinking water project across Mhadei River within a month.
Addressing media persons, Dhavlikar said that Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant should agree to the demand of Kamat and convene a special one-day session and adopt a resolution that Centre should withdraw the consent granted to Karnataka within a month.
“Failing which, all the 40 MLAs including the chief minister and three MPs — two Lok Sabha and one Rajya Sabha — should tender resignation. The chief minister’s resignation alone will not help. We need to build pressure,” he said.
Dhavalikar recalled that the chief minister and WRD minister assured on the floor of the House that the interest of Mhadei wouldn’t be compromised.
“But looking at the developments in Delhi, it looks like the State government has failed to keep up its promise,” he alleged.
The former deputy chief minister said that it is a failure of the State government that the Centre has issued consent for the project.
Dhavalikar said that they are viewing this development very seriously. Rest of the political parties should also react to the development. He said that his party would create awareness on the issue for which he would tour the entire State.
On Thursday, the chief minister said that he has already communicated to Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate change (MoEF&CC) to withdraw the consent granted for Kalasa-Bhandura project immediately failing which it would be challenged before National Green Tribunal and would also seek the Prime Minister’s intervention.
