People Are Suffering Due To Water Crisis In Bengaluru & MLAs Are Busy Doing Politics In Resort

We all know that Bengaluru may soon run out of water. We all know people can't depend on monsoon and there has t be a sustainable policy about water management. But, where are the policymakers in Karnataka? Reportedly, they are staying in a resort worrying about no one, but their own political future? Is this why they were elected?

At a time when people need their representatives the most, they have decided leave their voters behind and ensure that they remain in power.

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The JDS-Congress alliance has once again found itself in a spot of bother after a total of 13 MLAs from Congress, JDU and Independents resigned. If the Karnataka Assembly Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar accepts the resignations the Kumaraswamy government will become a minority and has no choice but to resign.

But the Congress is in no mood to give up yet. DK Shivakumar, the party's troubleshooter-in-chief has been working overtime for the past few days to trying to convince the MLAs who are now held up in the Renaissance Hotel Powai in Mumbai.

Meanwhile, the JDS has shifted around 30 JDS MLAs and MLCs to a private resort in Devanahalli to avoid them being poached. This has left the state with virtually no government. Incidentally, Karnataka is no stranger to the so-called 'resort politics'.

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Earlier this year, 78 Congress MLAs were moved to The Eagleton Golf Resort amid the fear of being poached by the BJP. It was so awkward that two of them got into a physical fight and one of them, Anand Singh was hospitalized after J N Ganesh, both from Ballari district had a heated argument and came to blows.

Almost the same time, the BJP too was involved in resort politics and had shifted its MLAs to a resort in Haryana¡¯s Nuh district near the national capital. January was not the first time The Eagleton Golf Resort played host to Congress MLAs. In 2017, it was the same resort where some 42 Congress MLAs from Gujarat stayed after the party state unit shifted them out ahead of the Rajya Sabha elections.

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By the way, this resort politics is not something that Congress has exclusive rights on. The BJP too its own fair share of resort politics. BS Yeddyurappa who is most likely to become the next Karnataka CM in case the JDU-Congress government falls had his own resort politics, not once but twice.

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In 2011, he set camp with his loyal MLAs in a resort, demanding that Sadananda Gowda be made Karnataka CM instead of Jagadish Shettar, and in 2012, did the same to get Gowda ousted.

In 2018 39 corporators from the Latur Municipal Corporation in Maharashtra including 34 from the BJP were sent to a resort in Goa ahead of the legislative council election.

Another high profile 'resort politics' was in 2017 in Tamil Nadu following the resignation of O Panneerselvam as Chief Minister. He later accused the then AIADMK leader VK Sasikala of forcing him to resign, resulting in a sort of split in the party and both factions were fighting for control. Sasikala then took her loyalist MLAs to a resort near Chennai.