Karnataka Opposition Blames Report for Drought Relief Pressure

The Karnataka legislature convened a three-day special session to address the Kasturirangan Committee report on Western Ghats conservation and ongoing drought conditions, with opposition parties actively blaming the draft implementation for exacerbating agricultural losses. While ruling Congress legislators accepted only two stanzas of 'Vande Mataram,' BJP-JD(S) members protested by singing the full national anthem during deliberations that began without major disruption. The state government plans to pass a resolution against the Union Ministry's July 27 environmental notification within its sixty-day objection window, aiming to counter plot-level mapping proposals intended for twenty thousand square kilometers of land.