DMK President Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi on June 10 denied that his plea for convening an all-party meeting by the ADMK regime to discuss issues related to setting up of the Cauvery Management Board (CMB), which will oversee implementation of the Cauvery Tribunal’s Final Award, had been made in an unseemly hurry and said that the refusal of the Chief Minister Jayalalitha made clear that she was not interested in establishing the rights of Tamil Nadu in Cauvery issue.
Referring to Jayalalitha’s statement on June 9 on the issue, Kalaignar said the demand of all parties in the State and all sections of people including delta farmers was the CMB should be constituted. But, people of Karnataka and all political parties there unanimously say that no steps should be taken now on the constitution of the CMB. Pointing out to reports that Karnataka Chief Minister Siddharamaiah, on the other hand, was leading an all-party delegation to New Delhi to meet the Prime Minister to press their case against constitution of the CMB now, Kalaignar said it was strange that the ADMK leader had quickly turned down the demand made by the DMK and other Opposition parties in the State for an all-party meet. “If all the parties meet and take a united stand on the issue, it would have only strengthened the position of the Chief Minister.”
From the united action taken by Karnataka government and the ADMK leader brushing aside his plea would make it clear to all “who is more concerned about the Cauvery waters issue.”
Just like the saying ‘The hand of one infected with psoriasis won’t keep quite’, Jayalalitha didn’t fail to accuse me even while issuing statement that all parties in TN had same opinion. She has informed that ‘DMK President Karunanidhi silently withdrew the case on Cauvery waters’. “This was totally wrong. It was not silently withdrawn but only after convening the meeting of leaders of all parties and getting their views, that too with the condition that a case could again be filed if required”, Kalaignar said adding it was done on goodwill after the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi felt the pending case could be impediment for amicable settlement through talks. “Jayalalitha, in the absence of any other valid point, repeating the same accusation ad nauseam’.
Moreover, she has claimed that the DMK while in power did nothing to get the final award of the Cauvery Tribunal notified in the Central gazette and she did everything for it. The truth was that Karnataka and Kerala had filed special leave petitions in the Supreme Court against the final award. Tamil Nadu government had also filed a special appeal for further study of some portions of the Tribunal report which were against the interests of the state. All these were pending in the Supreme Court for some years. According to law only after the Tribunal submitted to the Centre its supplementary report on the petitions filed and that was notified in the Central gazette, the final award would come into force and binding all States. Till then only the interim report would be in force. In spite of him explaining this legal process several times, Jayalalitha was unnecessarily accusing the DMK of doing nothing.
Moreover she has said that listening to the views of all parties was meaningless act. If so is the Karnataka Chief Minister democratically seeking the views of all parties and acting accordingly, a meaningless action? The same Jayalalitha had convened all-party meetings during her previous tenure, were they all meaningless actions? “Only the people of Tamil Nadu who voted for her in the Parliamentary elections should realise whether Jayalalitha was functioning with the arrogance that there was nothing above her, there were nothing that she did not know and not prepared to climb down to the level of convening meeting of all parties and seeking their opinions”, Kalaignar said.
Further, Jayalalitha’s reasoning that the Centre needed to be given some time after her recent meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi CMB was more reflective of her eagerness “to be supportive of the Central government” rather than to get the CMB set up expeditiously, he said adding the refusal of the Chief Minister Jayalalitha made clear that she was not interested in establishing the rights of Tamil Nadu in Cauvery issue.
Referring to Jayalalitha’s statement on June 9 on the issue, Kalaignar said the demand of all parties in the State and all sections of people including delta farmers was the CMB should be constituted. But, people of Karnataka and all political parties there unanimously say that no steps should be taken now on the constitution of the CMB. Pointing out to reports that Karnataka Chief Minister Siddharamaiah, on the other hand, was leading an all-party delegation to New Delhi to meet the Prime Minister to press their case against constitution of the CMB now, Kalaignar said it was strange that the ADMK leader had quickly turned down the demand made by the DMK and other Opposition parties in the State for an all-party meet. “If all the parties meet and take a united stand on the issue, it would have only strengthened the position of the Chief Minister.”
From the united action taken by Karnataka government and the ADMK leader brushing aside his plea would make it clear to all “who is more concerned about the Cauvery waters issue.”
Just like the saying ‘The hand of one infected with psoriasis won’t keep quite’, Jayalalitha didn’t fail to accuse me even while issuing statement that all parties in TN had same opinion. She has informed that ‘DMK President Karunanidhi silently withdrew the case on Cauvery waters’. “This was totally wrong. It was not silently withdrawn but only after convening the meeting of leaders of all parties and getting their views, that too with the condition that a case could again be filed if required”, Kalaignar said adding it was done on goodwill after the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi felt the pending case could be impediment for amicable settlement through talks. “Jayalalitha, in the absence of any other valid point, repeating the same accusation ad nauseam’.
Moreover, she has claimed that the DMK while in power did nothing to get the final award of the Cauvery Tribunal notified in the Central gazette and she did everything for it. The truth was that Karnataka and Kerala had filed special leave petitions in the Supreme Court against the final award. Tamil Nadu government had also filed a special appeal for further study of some portions of the Tribunal report which were against the interests of the state. All these were pending in the Supreme Court for some years. According to law only after the Tribunal submitted to the Centre its supplementary report on the petitions filed and that was notified in the Central gazette, the final award would come into force and binding all States. Till then only the interim report would be in force. In spite of him explaining this legal process several times, Jayalalitha was unnecessarily accusing the DMK of doing nothing.
Moreover she has said that listening to the views of all parties was meaningless act. If so is the Karnataka Chief Minister democratically seeking the views of all parties and acting accordingly, a meaningless action? The same Jayalalitha had convened all-party meetings during her previous tenure, were they all meaningless actions? “Only the people of Tamil Nadu who voted for her in the Parliamentary elections should realise whether Jayalalitha was functioning with the arrogance that there was nothing above her, there were nothing that she did not know and not prepared to climb down to the level of convening meeting of all parties and seeking their opinions”, Kalaignar said.
Further, Jayalalitha’s reasoning that the Centre needed to be given some time after her recent meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi CMB was more reflective of her eagerness “to be supportive of the Central government” rather than to get the CMB set up expeditiously, he said adding the refusal of the Chief Minister Jayalalitha made clear that she was not interested in establishing the rights of Tamil Nadu in Cauvery issue.
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