Anti-Yettinahole activists protest against DVS and Moily

The members of Nethravathi Rakshana Samyukta Samithi staged a protest against Union Minister Sadananda Gowda and former union minister M Veerappa Moily in front of Town Hall on Saturday. The duo was supposed to attend a decennial programme of a channel. 

The Samithi members waved black flags at Moily and Gowda in their absence. The protesters were stopped by the police when they tried to break open the closed gate of the Town Hall. Over 50 protesters forcibly entered the premises of the Town Hall and shouted slogans against Moily and Gowda for implementing Yettinahole project.

Addressing the mediapersons, Samithi president Vijay Kumar Shetty said, “Our intention was not to spoil the decennial celebrations of the channel. We want to show our anger against the two leaders who started their political career in Dakshina Kannada and now have turned against the district by implementing Yettinahole project. If the project is not withdrawn then we will not allow Moily and Gowda to enter the district,” he warned.

He appealed to the general public and organisations not to invite Moily and Gowda to any of the programmes in Dakshina Kannada. The duo should convince the state government to drop the project, he demanded.

Samithi member M G Hegde said that both the Congress and the BJP will benefit if the project is implemented. The organisations and individuals, who invite the duo to the district for any public programmes, will be condemned in the future, he said.

Convener of Netravati Rakshana Samyukta Samiti Satyajit Suratkal said that currently Moily and Gowda may be representing Chikkaballapura and Bengaluru constituencies; however, it was this district which gave them political existence.

Convener of Paschima Ghatta Samrakshana Samiti Somshekar said, "Veerappa Moily, Sadananda Gowda and advocate general of the state are the people who are creating hatred between the people of Kolar and Dakshina Kannada. We have been fighting against the implementation of Yettinahole project for the last one and half years.”