Bengaluru: Attacking the ruling Congress party over its stand on Yettinahole project, the BJP has said that the Congress has failed to take the coastal people into confidence before taking up the project.

BJP State Chief B S Yeddyurappa opined during a party-level review meet that the state has commercial interest in Yettinahole and hence it is acting against the interest of the people.

Supporting the bundh called by some an organisation against the project, BSY said that the government needs to clear apprehensions of the people.

“The hush-hush manner in which the government has procured a large quantity of pipes without taking the people of coastal region into confidence speaks of the hidden commercial interest in the multi-crore project,” Yeddyurappa said.

The project aims to mitigate the drinking water problem in drought-prone Chikkaballapur, Kolar, Tumakuru and Bengaluru Rural districts by harnessing 24 tmcft from Yettinahole in Hassan district.

He insisted that the government must hold talks with the coastal people and then go ahead with the project.