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Karnataka chief minister, Siddaramaiah, on Sunday expressed his outrage over the abusive word used by the minister in Goa’s BJP-led government terming the remarks as ‘reprehensible.’
He took to Twitter to express his outrage adding that he held no grudges against the guilty minister.
Siddaramaiah wrote, “The abusive words used against #Kannadigas by @BJP4India Irrigation Minister from Goa are reprehensible to say the least. However, we hold no grudge against the people of Goa. We will continue to strive to secure drinking water from #Mahadayi for our people.”
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The abusive words used against #Kannadigas by @BJP4India Irrigation Minister from Goa are reprehensible to say the least. However, we hold no grudge against the people of Goa. We will continue to strive to secure drinking water from #Mahadayi for our people.
The Karnaka CM’s response came after a senior minister from Goa abused Kannadigas, the native people of Karnataka, by calling them haramis, illegitimate.
Goa Irrigation Minister Vinod Palekar who visited the Khanapura taluk site where Kalasa Nala works are being carried out, insulted the people of Karnataka by calling them illegitimate-born (‘harami’), reports Deccan Herald.
Palekar who inspected the nala works near Kanakumbi, expressed dissatisfaction about the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government in the state.
Palekar said that the Karnataka government had disobeyed a Supreme Court order and is playing ‘dirty politics’. Goa Chief Minister writing to Karnataka BJP president B S Yeddyurappa was not a court’s order he clarified.
“Mahadayi is our mother. Why should we bother about farmers protesting in Karnataka? There is no question of releasing water till the dispute is settled by the Water Tribunal,” he said and returned to Goa.
The minister who was later questioned by Goan journalists why he visited the Kalasa nala site with police protection, Palekar has called Kannadigas ‘haramis’.
“Hence I went with police protection,” he has justified to Goan scribes.
Karnataka Water Resources Minister M B Patil is scheduled to visit the Kalasa Nala site on Monday