Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, on Sunday, blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not giving an appointment to an all-party delegation from the State to discuss some vital issues.
“I have recently convened an all-party meeting. I want to take an all-party delegation to the Prime Minister and discuss crucial issues like Mekedatu, Mahadayi, Upper Krishna and Cauvery apart from drought. But, the Prime Minister is not giving his date. There are 25 BJP Lok Sabha members from the State and none is ready to raise the issue before the Prime Minister,” Mr. Siddaramaiah said in a media conference at Aiwan-e-Shahi Guest House in Kalaburagi on Sunday.
The Chief Minister was in Kalaburagi to participate in Kalyana Karnataka Utsav and hoist the national flag to mark the integration of the Kalyana Karnataka region in the Indian Union after the Annexation of Hyderabad in 1948.
