DMK on Saturday has decided to take serious steps on Cauvery issue. They have suggested to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami that all the MP’s from the state should resign if PM Narendra Modi did not meet a proposed all-party delegation to press setting up of the Cauvery Water Management Board.
The suggestion was made by DMK working president MK Stalin during a meeting with Palaniswami.
After the meeting though Stalin has claimed that the State government has told him that Modi has refused to meet the delegation, the state government has declined it.
Fisheries Minister D Jayakumar said, “neither the Prime Minister’s Office nor Modi has declined to meet the Tamil Nadu delegation.”
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According to the State Government, what the central Government has in reality told was to meet the concerned ministry first and then will look into a meeting with Prime Minister.
The apex court had on February 16 raised the 270 tmcft share of Cauvery water for Karnataka by 14.75 tmcft and reduced Tamil Nadu’s share while compensating it by allowing extraction of 10 tmcft groundwater from the river basin.
The move was a huge setback for the Tamilnadu Government which has lead to extreme political upheavals in the state.
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