Bengaluru: Even as Bengaluru marches ahead in Information Technology, the JD(S) has staked claim to setting it off on its course in its manifesto for the coming elections released on Wednesday by party surpremo, H D Deve Gowda.
Claiming that it was Mr Gowda who gave priority to setting up the ITPL when Chief Minister and completing it during his term in office, the manifesto also highlights other contributions of the Janata Parivar to the state.
It's lists among them convincing the defence forces to part with 80 acres of land for road widening and other infrastructure projects in Bengaluru city during the Deve Gowda government and allowing the height of the Almatti dam to be raised to 523 meters.
Holding the Congress responsible for setting up both the Cauvery and Krishna water tribunals, the manifesto charges the NDA and UPA governments with being partial to neighbouring Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh in water disputes.
It says that when the Karnataka government tried to supply Cauvery water to Bengaluru city in 1995, the Union government stalled the project saying it could not be taken up until the tribunal gave its final order. But when Tamil Nadu planned a project at Hogenikal illegally, the Union government sanctioned money for it, depriving two thirds of Bengaluru of Cauvery water, it alleges.
The manifesto also attacks the Congress for depriving the state of a railway division and transferring it to Secunderabad and stalling the state government's move to use Krishna water for irrigation.
