New Delhi: Lashing out at protests in Karnataka over the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal verdict, Infosys founder N R Narayana Murthy on Sunday said the battle needed to be fought in courts and shutdowns were futile.
"I have been saying for the last 25 years; if our country has to progress, agitations, strikes, burning buses, thrashing those who go to schools...these things do not take us forward," as quoted by PTI, Software icon Murthy said.
Murthy was responding to a question at a press conference after President A P J Abdul Kalam's visit to the Infosys campus in Mysore, on why the company chose to function on the day of a 'bandh' called by political parties recently to protest the tribunal's award.
"If you want to win, you have to make sure that you argue (in courts, Cauvery tribunal) with all data...The action plan has to be in Delhi, the action plan has to be in Supreme Court, it has to be somewhere else," Murthy said.
He said the solution was not closing down Bangalore as Karnataka lost Cauvery water as well as revenue for the day.
"What a silly thing," he said. When a reporter said Karnataka provided land to Infosys to house its headquarters and other facilities and even then it was working on bandh day, Murthy said, "Nobody has given it free. We have purchased it paying money... Nobody is doing anybody a favour".
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