If the water is stopped, will you be put in jail, we will also come to jail with you. We will be with you for 5 years. mla G. T. Deve Gowda warned that first stop the water and save the farmers. For this government, implementing the guarantee scheme is more important than saving the farmers. 2,000 in the guarantee scheme, you have increased the price of liquor by 20 Rs. They pay more and buy liquor. It will be three thousand per month. What you are giving women is 2 thousand. He criticized the guarantee scheme as to whether the extra money would be a burden on his family. Bangalore city needs more than 10 TMC of water. Water storage in the dam has already begun to decline. Water is required for another seven to eight months. people of Bengaluru should also participate in Cauvery struggle. He warned that otherwise they will not get water to drink. Form a hardship formula: Former minister D.C. Tammanna strongly advocated that a hardship formula should be formed in the matter of distribution of Cauvery river water. A decision has to be made about how much water should be allocated to which state during non-rainy season. That water should also be shared equally. No one can stop the water that flows during a good rain. He demanded that water should be distributed under the hardship formula when there is no rain.
He described former prime minister HD Deve Gowda as the one who saved 14.71 tmc feet of water from tamil Nadu by going by the saying 'Our water is our right'. The Congress, which had embarked on the Mekedatu Padayatra in the name of Namma Niru Namma Yatra, alleged that it had betrayed the farmers and people of the state by leaving water to tamil Nadu. Deve Gowda was first elected as an mla in 1962 and took a private resolution on water issues in 1963. In 1985, Iggaluru Barrage was constructed and emphasis was placed on irrigation. Despite the support of tamil Nadu DMK, when he was the prime minister, he gave 10 tmc water to the drinking preference of the people of Bengaluru. He said this is a pro-people-farmer stand.
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