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Bangalore: DVS Slams Tamil Nadu, Vows Legal Fight on Cauvery

  •   Sat, Mar 24 2012 09:22:32 PM

Bangalore: DVS Slams Tamil Nadu, Vows Legal Fight on Cauvery

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Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore

Bangalore, Mar 24: Lambasting Tamil Nadu for 'frequently' raking up the Cauvery River water issue, Karnataka Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda has vowed to legally fight for protecting the interests of the State and its farmers.

The Chief Minister said the State Government was committed to protecting the interests of the State and its farmers and declared that the Government would ensure that no injustice would be done to farmers in the Cauvery basin.

''Tamil Nadu is in the habit of raising the water-sharing issue at frequent intervals,” the Chief Minister said after holding discussions with the state’s Irrigation Department and Law Department officials on Tamil Nadu moving the Supreme Court over the Cauvery waters issue.

“We will take the matter seriously and deal with it legally”, the Chief Minister told reporters after the meeting.

All the riparian states have to honour the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal order and also on the distress formula given by it, Gowda said asserting that the interest of the State’s farmers would not be sacrificed.

Meanwhile, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee President Dr G Parameshwara demanded that State Government should immediately convene an all-party meeting to debate the issue and requested that the State should not release water to Tamil Nadu as the farmers in the State were already suffering due to depleting Cauvery waters.

Kannada Chaluvali leader Vatal Nagaraj also made similar demands.

Tamil Nadu has filed an application seeking to restrain Karnataka from resorting to summer irrigation.

The two states are locked in decades-long dispute on sharing waters of the river and the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal had given its final award in 2007, allocating 419 tmcft water to Tamil Nadu and 270 tmcft to Karnataka annually.

Karnataka has challenged the award in the Supreme Court, alleging that it gave a raw deal to the State overlooking its requirements and rights.
  

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  • a.v.a, blore

    Sun, Mar 25 2012

    If we had politicians of caliber then surely the central gov will listen to us.

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  • Louis, Kuwait

    Sun, Mar 25 2012

    This govt stand is to bluff our farmers. Last time BJP has given water to Tamil Nadu bluffing our farmers. Both state n Tamil govt are against central govt and both share water n other resources. BJP's double standards are known to all. When ever there Is no any issue, Tamil Nadu will look at Kaveri water.

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  • Tony Crasta, Mangalore

    Sun, Mar 25 2012

    Good on you DVS Gowda and go all the way. Wish you luck. Tamil Nadu Government all along has been a bully, and it is time and appropriate that the Government of stands up to its just rights.

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  • Gerald, modankap-bantval

    Sat, Mar 24 2012

    HE IS THE RIGHT CHIEF MINISTER TO OUR STATE !!! DVS WE ARE WITH YOU SIR !!!!

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  • Dinesh Poojary, Kundapura/Bengaluru

    Sat, Mar 24 2012

    We Kannadigas have more rights on Cauvery water. It is our Sir MV who built KRS dam and started utilizing the water for agriculture purpose. Hence we need to have more share on water.

    TN people should understand this. Only when we have excess water, should be released to TN. Otherwise No. Let them make alternative arrangements for water.

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