Bengaluru/Chennai: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has said that it does not matter even if BJP’s own Tamilnadu unit on hunger strike over the controversial Mekedatu dam and his government will go ahead with the project.
Reacting to BJP Tamilnadu president K Annamalai going on hunger strike over the issue, Bommai said, “I don’t care as to who goes on strike. It is politics for the politics in this issue.”
He added: “Be it DMK, AIADMK or even my own party. The construction of Mekedatu reservoir is well within our rights and we will go ahead with it.”
Annamalai on Thursday held one-day hunger strike in Thanjavur district over Mekedatu dam construction issue.
He said the Tamilnadu unit of the BJP will continue to oppose everyone in Karnataka over the proposed construction of a dam across the river Cauvery at Mekedatu.