Yediyurappa lashes out at the government, alleging that despite the severe drought in the State, it has failed to respond to people’s hardships and was instead trying to acquire fertile farmland
While a forceful push to acquire land could alienate farmers and rural voters, abandoning or scaling down the project could weaken the government’s development narrative and be seen as yielding to Opposition-backed protests
With this, the row over Bidadi township, championed by Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar and has become a political flashpoint with Union Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy, has only escalated further.