(Image source from: Splitting of Bengaluru civic body will not result in Telugu)

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddharamaih has dismissed the fears that the splitting of the Bengaluru civic body will result in losing the local Kannadigas hold and result in Telugu and Tamil Mayors. "Our intention behind splitting the BBMP is good. But some people said Bengaluru was built by Kempe Gowda, and if the city's civic body was split, local Kannadigas will lose their hold on the new municipal entities which will be taken over by Tamil and Telugu mayors. That is not going to happen," the CM said.

"Small is beautiful," Siddaramaiah added to defend the Karnataka government's decision to create three smaller municipal bodies in Bengaluru and stated that the proposed bodies will make city governance "transparent and effective."

“Problems such as drinking water shortage, lack of proper roads and garbage problem faced by Bengaluru are all due to the wrong decision by the JD (S)-BJP coalition regime in 2007 to enlarge the city civic body by including the eight municipal bodies and 30 villages that have caused all the problems the citizens were facing today”, he said.

The BJP and the JD (S) are misleading and trying to play up people against the government, because BBMP elections are ahead", Siddharamaih added.

By Premji