Mangaluru: Suspecting foul play in the Yettinahole project, former union minister and senior Congressman Janardhan Poojary has urged the State government to setup a Commission of Enquiry headed by a Supreme Court Judge with a clean profile to probe the case.

His statement comes in the backdrop of the Advocate General of the National Green Tribunal, South Zone, lifting the stay on Yettinahole project on January 8.

Poojary said that the Advocate General is not an ordinary man and has been influenced by vested interests. According to him, the government is now free to continue work except for one hectare.

Contrary to this, speaking to News Karnataka, an environmentalist had earlier in the day informed News Karnataka that the Green Tribunal has granted permission to carry our work only in private land and not in government land. When asked to comment on this, Poojary said that the environment is lying hinting that he is sold.

Further speaking about the Commission of Enquiry, he expressed faith that the panel if setup, would bring out facts which the people mainly of the coastal and the drought-hit region in North Kannada deserve to know.

Slamming former chief ministers of Karnataka, DV Sadananda Gowda and Veerappa Moily, he said that Commission would also bring out their true faces and the reason behind their ‘special interest’ in the project.

He advised CM Siddaramaiah that it was a golden opportunity to get the latter’s name registered in the history books, if he shelved the project and thereby saved the life of people in coastal Karnataka and the Western Ghats.