Vatal Madappa Nagaraj (born c.1936) is an Indian politician who was the Member of the

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from Chamarajnagar. He is the founder and president of the Kannada Chaluvali Vatal Paksha. In 1964 he led a two-month agitation demanding the destruction of a 150-year-old

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era cenotaph pillar marking the deaths of soldiers at the Siege of Bangalore in 1791. In October of that year the cenotaph was dismantled by the Bangalore City Corporation and a statue of Kempe Gowda now stands in its place. Nagaraj served in the

until being defeated by C Guru Swamy in 2004. He protested in 2017 against the comments of a famous South Indian actor Sathyaraj during the Cauvery Protest by Tamil Nadu Actors Association against Karnataka. The protest was called off later. In 2018 he started a new agitation on January 25 for water sharing from

Mandovi River The Mandovi (International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA: ) or Mahadayi (International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA: ), formerly known as the Rio de Goa, is a river described as the lifeline of the Indian state of Goa. The Mandovi and the Zuari River, Zua ...

flowing from Goa. Some political critiques question the authenticity of Vatal's fight against Goa State for water sharing when he himself fights against Tamil Nadu government for Supreme court order to release water in Cauvery river.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nagaraj, Vatal Living people 1940s births Year of birth missing (living people)