The article discusses how the KPCC spokesman, Ha Venkatesh, has appealed to the Union Minister for Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, to name the 10-lane Mysurubengaluru Expressway in the memory of the visionary Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar. Venkatesh's request follows a similar appeal made by Mysuru MP Pratap Simha, who has urged the Centre to name the thoroughfare after the river Cauvery. Venkatesh points out that the length of the expressway that was within the jurisdiction of Simha was a meagre eight kilometres, and he appeals to the Union Government to confer with Mandya MP Sumalatha Ambareesh and Bengaluru Rural MP Dk Suresh before arriving at a decision. Taking umbrage at Simha's unilateral decision to approach the Central Government with the proposal for naming the expressway without consulting his fellow MPs, Venkatesh appeals to the Union Minister to attend to the problems raised by local elected representatives and the villagers before inaugurating the thoroughfare formally. He urges BJP workers to dedicate themselves to the cause of ensuring the saffron party could stake claim to power without having to lean on other parties
