Vatal Madappa Nagaraj 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

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and a statue of

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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

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during the Cauvery Protest by Tamil Nadu Actors Association against Karnataka. The protest was called off latter. In 2018 he started a new agitation on January 25 for water sharing from

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

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