Bengaluru: Senior Congress legislator MB Patil on today (July 9) met Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa to seek financial help for irrigation in drought-hit villages in Vijayapura district.

Taking into a Twitter handle, the senior leader noted, that I Made a request for financial assistance to provide irrigation to the drought-hit villages of Indi taluk by filling 16 tanks from the Krishna River through Tidagundi aqueduct. He has informally agreed to the same.

The former Water Resources Minister sought financial assistance also for work on releasing additional water from the Almatti Dam into the lakes and check-dams in the command area of  Upper Krishna Project-III to improve the groundwater level in Vijayapura district.

The meeting was keenly watched as Patil is a prominent Lingayat leader from north Karnataka, the community to which the Chief Minister too belongs. The Babaleshwar MLA said the Chief Minister has responded positively to an appeal to taking up the reprinting of ''Shivanubhava'', a Kannada newspaper edited by Dr PG Halakatti.

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