Mangaluru, Oct 14: In a positive development, people of all faiths and communities in Dakshina Kannada district have decided to join their hands together to fight against “unfeasible” Yettinahole water diversion project.
All prominent religious and social organisations of Muslims and two prominent Billva and Bunts organisations have reiterated their support to ongoing protest against the project and decided to participate in the rasta roko called by Netravathi Nadi Samrakshana Okkuta in the city on October 15.
At joint meeting of environmentalists of the district and Muslim organisations held at the Campus Career Academy in the city recently passed a resolution to exert pressure on the state government through the protest.
Giridhar Kamath, MG Hegde and Dinesh Holla from Netravathi Nadi Samrakshana Okkuta, Mohammed Haneef, General Secretary, DK and Udupi Muslim Central Committee, K Ashraf, president, United Muslim Organisation of DK, KM Shareef, former chairman, Hira Educational Institution, Abdul Rahman, State Joint Secretary of SSF, SM Farooq from KKMA, Mohammed Kunhi from Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Khasim Ahmed HK from Hidaya Foundation, Shabbeer Ahmed from Students Islamic Organisation of India, Mohammed Muhsin from JIH Youth Wing, Mohammed Bolar from South Canara Salafi Movement, Kabeer Ahmed from Muslim Welfare Association and Umar UH from the Campus Career Academy were present in the meeting.
Meanwhile, Billava Mahamandala and Bantara yane Nadavara Matru Sangha have also supported Thursday’s road block protest.
In a joint press statement on Tuesday both the caste associations said the rasta roko would begin at 10 a.m. It was condemnable that notwithstanding the opposition of people to the project the government was hell bent that it would complete the project, the associations said.
The project would hit fisheries sector in addition to creating drinking water shortage in Dakshina Kannada, they said.
Mangalore Diocese had also recently resolved to oppose Yettinahole project.
The Okkoota, which has called for a rasta roko at Pumpwell Junction — the meeting point of National Highway 66 and National Highway 75 in Mangaluru — on October 15 demanding scrapping of the Yettinahole Water Diversion Project, believes that at least one person from every household in the city would participate in the 30-minute agitation.
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