BENGALURU: KPCC president DK Shivakumar on Sunday released a letter he had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him not to shift the Indian Human Spaceflight Programme (Gaganyaan) from Karnataka to Gujarat.
Describing Kannadigas as attached to ISRO, which launched Gaganyaan, Shivakumar said any move to shift the project from the state would prove detrimental to their trust in the Centre.
“They (Kannadigas) are aghast to learn there are attempts to shift this prestigious project from Bengaluru to Gujarat. If this happens, people of the state will feel the Centre is ignoring, betraying and giving scant respect to them. It will hurt the self-respect of Kannadigas. The move will have an adverse effect on the consolidation of the country’s federal system...,” he said.
Shivakumar wrote a similar letter to chief minister Basavaraj Bommai, asking him to lead a delegation of state MPs to ensure the proposal is not implemented.
