The water crisis in Bengaluru has now hit the Lok Sabha elections too with residents of a layout in J.P. Nagar deciding to boycott the polls, owing to the apathy by the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) in providing the Cauvery water supply.
Over a hundred residents from Royal Lakefront Residency have signed a letter to the Chief Electoral Officer in which they have said that elections will be boycotted. The residents claim that they have been working with the BWSSB for 20 years now to get the Cauvery water supply, but it has not yielded results.
“We have underground drainage (UGD) facility and community water supply through borewells in the locality. Our tragedy is that these borewells have gone dry. We have no water supply at all,” said Nagesh. R., president, Royal Lakefront Residency Residents and Site Owners’ Welfare Association, in the letter.
