Dear brothers and sisters,
There are reports in all dailies that Chief Minister Jayalalitha on 13.6.2014 has written letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the Cauvery Management Board should be immediately constituted. The same Chief Minister Jayalalitha three days back on 10.6.2014 issued a lengthy statement in reply to me.
She had issued that statement in reply to my question as to why she could not invite the representatives of all parties in Tamil Nadu and talk to them like the Karnataka Chief Minister doing so about the setting up of the CMB. In that statement she had said that the Prime Minister kindly listened to the demand she submitted and assured to do the needful. After telling that the Prime Minister was in the mind of helping Tamil Nadu, setting up the CMB was a part of the award of the Cauvery Tribunal and the Centre required some time to implement it, if she had written letter in three days for immediately setting up the CMB, has she forgotten her writing in the statement on 10th that the Prime Minister should be given time?
In the letter to the Prime Minister, Chief Minister Jayalalitha has unnecessarily dragged the DMK to feud. As usual she has alleged that the previous DMK rule did not press the Centre to notify the final draft of the tribunal in the central gazette. It seems she could not get sleep if she did not find fault with the DMK in any issue like Cauvery, Katchatheevu or Sri Lanka! How many times will she accuse the DMK on Cauvery issue and I reply to it?
Jayalalitha said in the Assembly itself as if only because of her unrelenting efforts that the interim report of the Cauvery Tribunal was obtained. It was only when the DMK was in power that a letter itself was written to the Centre on 17.2.1970 for setting up a Cauvery Tribunal. It was only during DMK rule that a resolution was adopted in the Assembly on 1971 for setting up a tribunal.
Only when the DMK was in power that an all-party leaders meeting was held on 27.7.1989 and a resolution to request the Centre to set up the Tribunal was adopted. But leaders of parties except the Jayalalitha-led ADMK participated in it.
After V.P.Singh assumed charge as Prime Minister on 2.12.1989, I wrote letter demanding setting up of tribunal. On V.P.Singh asking me to adopt a resolution about it in the Assembly and send it, again a resolution was adopted in the House on the need for the tribunal on 24.4.1990. Only as a result of that resolution, the tribunal was set up on 2.6.1990 during DMK rule when I was the Chief Minister.
Only during DMK rule on 28.7.1990 that a petition was filed in the Tribunal demanding interim award. On 5.1.1991 the Tribunal held that it had no power to issue an interim award. A case was filed in the Supreme Court on 10.1.1991 during DMK rule for its order whether or not the tribunal had the power to issue an interim award and the SC held that the Tribunal had the power. It was only because of that judgment obtained by the DMK rule that the Tribunal issued interim award on 25.6.1991. It was in the meanwhile that the DMK government was dismissed on 31.1.1991 and Jayalalitha came to power. Although the interim award was notified in the Central gazette during her regime, there were no results. During her regime from 1991-1996, no effort whatsoever was taken to get the interim award implemented.
After the DMK came to power in 1996, in my letters to the Prime Minister on 9.7.1997, 23.7.1997, 29.9.1997, 1.11.1997 and 6.11.1997 and in person on 27.7.1997, I requested for finalizing the plan and notifying it gazette to avoid delay in effecting the award of the Tribunal. Moreover, a petition also was filed in the Supreme Court by the Tamil Nadu government on 10.11.1997 to issue such a directive to the Centre. Once again I requested the Prime Minister through letters on 28.3.1998, 6.4.1998 and 31.5.1998 and in person on 7.4.1998 to finalise the draft plan and notify in the gazette.
On 21.7.1998 the Supreme Court firmly ruled that even after 15 months of the Centre assuring to solve the issue amicably still no amenable solution had been evolved, and this condition could not be allowed to prolong.
On 28.7.1998, Prime Minister Vajpayee wrote to me asking me to participate in a meeting in PMO on 6.8.1998 to discuss about Cauvery issue. On 3.8.1998 a meeting of leaders of all political parties in TN was convened and it was decided that I could participate in the meeting. But Jayalalitha issued a statement that I should not go to that meeting.
It was at the end of that two day meeting conducted by Prime Minister Vajpayee that on 7.8.1998 during DMK rule an agreement to implement the interim order was reached. According to that agreement it was decided that 205 TMC water as said in the interim award should be released and a Cauvery River Authority led by the Prime Minister and consisting of chief ministers of four states would be set up. That agreement was hailed by leaders like C.Subramaniam, G.K.Moopanar, N.Sankaraiah, R.Nallakannu, AbdusSamad, M.A.Lathif, KumariAnandan, Tindivanam Ramamurthy, R.M.Veerappan, G.A.Vadivelu, Ila.Ganesan, S.Thirunavukkarasu and Bishop Esra.Sargunam and dailies The Hindu, Indian Express, Dinamani, Viduthalai, Theekkadir, The Times of India and Hindustan Times and journals such as Kalki, Kumudam, Saavi, Thuglaq, AnandaVikatan and Kungumam, This is the true history.
Not only that; when leaders of all parties and dailies hailed this historic agreement, Jayalalitha did not welcome it and said they reject it and won’t accept it.
It was BJP Prime Minister A.B.Vajpayee who paved the way for the agreement and he was then in the ADMK alliance. Still, he invited me, not in the alliance, and found out an amicable settlement. But you know what the leader of ADMK, a constituent of the Central government, told newspersons about the agreement? She said “Vajpayee has succumbed to the ploy of Karunanidhi on Cauvery issue. We reject the agreement reached by both of them”.
The final award of the Tribunal was released on 5.2.2007 under the DMK rule. This award was welcomed and statements issued by the then TNCC President M.Krishnaswamy, DK President K.Veeramani, VCK President Thol Thirumavalavan, CPM State Secretary N.Varadarajan, CPI State Secretary D.Pandian, Cauvery Delta Irrigation Farmers Association General Secretary Ranganathan and K.S.Natarajan on behalf of peasants and Workers Party.
But as usual ADMK General Secretary Jayalalitha issued a statement saying the final award was “unacceptable award” and “Karunanidhi could not get for Tamil Nadu the just award to be secured from the Tribunal in Cauvery issue. Accepting moral responsibility DMK government should resign”.
The same Jayalalitha now claims that only she strove for the notification of final award in the Central gazette and that the DMK did not make any effort.
Even at the time of release of the final award of the Tribunal, not willing to take unilateral decision like Jayalalitha, the DMK government took decisions only by convening all-party leaders meetings on 19.2.2007and 15.4.2007. But now without convening any such all-party meetings honouring democratic tradition, Jayalalitha functioning as if whatever she thinks is the decision.
Hence the truth is only that Jayalalitha did not accept the interim and final awards of the Cauvery Tribunal. Did she at least accept the Cauvery River Authority?
The announcement of setting up of Cauvery River Authority was made on 11.8.1998. Jayalalitha told the Assembly on 2.4.2002 that “the Cauvery River Authority was non-functional and toothless authority; we came out of the BJP alliance not accepting that authority”.
Without thinking over in detail about the consequences and adamantly sticking to her stand, Jayalalitha decided and announced in the Cabinet meeting held on 21.6.2002, “the Cauvery River Authority, without any powers, is unable to effectively execute the award of the Cauvery Tribunal. Hence Tamil Nadu will not participate in the meetings of this authority henceforth”.
It was Jayalalitha who said in July 2002 that they would boycott Cauvery Authority. On the next day she said “let us see if invited”. But as far I am concerned, even when not in power, I wrote a letter to Prime Minister Vajpayee on 5.7.2002 to immediately convene the authority meeting. In his reply on 10.7.2002 to my letter of 5.7.2002, the Prime Minister said he would look into it. Accordingly the CRA was convened.
At the meeting of the CRA participated by the PM on 27.8.2002, instead of finding way to get water by holding cordial talks and forgetting the urgent importance of the issue, Jayalalitha, with her own ill-temper, walked of the meeting in the middle of proceedings. On 29.11.2002 again the CRA meeting was held and Karnataka Chief Minister reached Delhi the previous day itself. But Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha cancelled her Delhi trip itself keep telling all along that she would come. Loss for whom? Only for farmers of Tamil Nadu!
Meanwhile, the Bench of the Supreme Court took serious objection to the letter of Jayalalitha to the Prime Minister stating her lack of faith in the CRA chaired by the Prime Minister and directed the counsel for Tamil Nadu to withdraw that defamatory letter within four days. Counsel for Tamil Nadu and senior advocate K.K.Venugopal told the Bench that “Tamil Nadu had full faith in the Prime Minister and the CRA chaired by him. TN Chief Minister Jayalalitha would again write a letter to the Prime Minister conveying faith in the CRA and withdrawing the earlier letter”.
Accordingly in the letter written to the Prime Minister on 16.11.2002 Jayalalitha had said that she had great personal respect for the Prime Minister and forgetting all she had already stated she had full faith in the CRA.
If the conduct of Jayalalitha ignoring the interests of delta district farmers at every stage in the Cauvery river water issue, is to be compiled and said,
Even when the interim award of the Tribunal was released, she said only if Karnataka released water on its own we would get it.
She sent reply after nine months delay to a letter from the Centre on the implementation of the interim award.
During her regime from 1991 to 1996, she did not make any effort for implementing interim award.
It was Jayalalitha who stated in a petition to Prime Minister V.P.Singh on behalf of the ADMK that the Cauvery Agreement lapsed in 1974.
Without participating in the CRA meeting on 29.11.2002 she cancelled it. Thus we can go on telling.
Jayalalitha, under the impression that the world would have forgotten this date-wise incidents and hence she could tell anything, is trying to mudsling on me. The DMK might have lost victory chance in the recently held Lok Sabha elections. But from the very fact that whether writing letter to the Prime Minister or issuing statements, Jayalalitha’s mind revolved around the DMK, the world will understand for whom is the real victory!
Affectionately,
M.K.
There are reports in all dailies that Chief Minister Jayalalitha on 13.6.2014 has written letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the Cauvery Management Board should be immediately constituted. The same Chief Minister Jayalalitha three days back on 10.6.2014 issued a lengthy statement in reply to me.
She had issued that statement in reply to my question as to why she could not invite the representatives of all parties in Tamil Nadu and talk to them like the Karnataka Chief Minister doing so about the setting up of the CMB. In that statement she had said that the Prime Minister kindly listened to the demand she submitted and assured to do the needful. After telling that the Prime Minister was in the mind of helping Tamil Nadu, setting up the CMB was a part of the award of the Cauvery Tribunal and the Centre required some time to implement it, if she had written letter in three days for immediately setting up the CMB, has she forgotten her writing in the statement on 10th that the Prime Minister should be given time?
In the letter to the Prime Minister, Chief Minister Jayalalitha has unnecessarily dragged the DMK to feud. As usual she has alleged that the previous DMK rule did not press the Centre to notify the final draft of the tribunal in the central gazette. It seems she could not get sleep if she did not find fault with the DMK in any issue like Cauvery, Katchatheevu or Sri Lanka! How many times will she accuse the DMK on Cauvery issue and I reply to it?
Jayalalitha said in the Assembly itself as if only because of her unrelenting efforts that the interim report of the Cauvery Tribunal was obtained. It was only when the DMK was in power that a letter itself was written to the Centre on 17.2.1970 for setting up a Cauvery Tribunal. It was only during DMK rule that a resolution was adopted in the Assembly on 1971 for setting up a tribunal.
Only when the DMK was in power that an all-party leaders meeting was held on 27.7.1989 and a resolution to request the Centre to set up the Tribunal was adopted. But leaders of parties except the Jayalalitha-led ADMK participated in it.
After V.P.Singh assumed charge as Prime Minister on 2.12.1989, I wrote letter demanding setting up of tribunal. On V.P.Singh asking me to adopt a resolution about it in the Assembly and send it, again a resolution was adopted in the House on the need for the tribunal on 24.4.1990. Only as a result of that resolution, the tribunal was set up on 2.6.1990 during DMK rule when I was the Chief Minister.
Only during DMK rule on 28.7.1990 that a petition was filed in the Tribunal demanding interim award. On 5.1.1991 the Tribunal held that it had no power to issue an interim award. A case was filed in the Supreme Court on 10.1.1991 during DMK rule for its order whether or not the tribunal had the power to issue an interim award and the SC held that the Tribunal had the power. It was only because of that judgment obtained by the DMK rule that the Tribunal issued interim award on 25.6.1991. It was in the meanwhile that the DMK government was dismissed on 31.1.1991 and Jayalalitha came to power. Although the interim award was notified in the Central gazette during her regime, there were no results. During her regime from 1991-1996, no effort whatsoever was taken to get the interim award implemented.
After the DMK came to power in 1996, in my letters to the Prime Minister on 9.7.1997, 23.7.1997, 29.9.1997, 1.11.1997 and 6.11.1997 and in person on 27.7.1997, I requested for finalizing the plan and notifying it gazette to avoid delay in effecting the award of the Tribunal. Moreover, a petition also was filed in the Supreme Court by the Tamil Nadu government on 10.11.1997 to issue such a directive to the Centre. Once again I requested the Prime Minister through letters on 28.3.1998, 6.4.1998 and 31.5.1998 and in person on 7.4.1998 to finalise the draft plan and notify in the gazette.
On 21.7.1998 the Supreme Court firmly ruled that even after 15 months of the Centre assuring to solve the issue amicably still no amenable solution had been evolved, and this condition could not be allowed to prolong.
On 28.7.1998, Prime Minister Vajpayee wrote to me asking me to participate in a meeting in PMO on 6.8.1998 to discuss about Cauvery issue. On 3.8.1998 a meeting of leaders of all political parties in TN was convened and it was decided that I could participate in the meeting. But Jayalalitha issued a statement that I should not go to that meeting.
It was at the end of that two day meeting conducted by Prime Minister Vajpayee that on 7.8.1998 during DMK rule an agreement to implement the interim order was reached. According to that agreement it was decided that 205 TMC water as said in the interim award should be released and a Cauvery River Authority led by the Prime Minister and consisting of chief ministers of four states would be set up. That agreement was hailed by leaders like C.Subramaniam, G.K.Moopanar, N.Sankaraiah, R.Nallakannu, AbdusSamad, M.A.Lathif, KumariAnandan, Tindivanam Ramamurthy, R.M.Veerappan, G.A.Vadivelu, Ila.Ganesan, S.Thirunavukkarasu and Bishop Esra.Sargunam and dailies The Hindu, Indian Express, Dinamani, Viduthalai, Theekkadir, The Times of India and Hindustan Times and journals such as Kalki, Kumudam, Saavi, Thuglaq, AnandaVikatan and Kungumam, This is the true history.
Not only that; when leaders of all parties and dailies hailed this historic agreement, Jayalalitha did not welcome it and said they reject it and won’t accept it.
It was BJP Prime Minister A.B.Vajpayee who paved the way for the agreement and he was then in the ADMK alliance. Still, he invited me, not in the alliance, and found out an amicable settlement. But you know what the leader of ADMK, a constituent of the Central government, told newspersons about the agreement? She said “Vajpayee has succumbed to the ploy of Karunanidhi on Cauvery issue. We reject the agreement reached by both of them”.
The final award of the Tribunal was released on 5.2.2007 under the DMK rule. This award was welcomed and statements issued by the then TNCC President M.Krishnaswamy, DK President K.Veeramani, VCK President Thol Thirumavalavan, CPM State Secretary N.Varadarajan, CPI State Secretary D.Pandian, Cauvery Delta Irrigation Farmers Association General Secretary Ranganathan and K.S.Natarajan on behalf of peasants and Workers Party.
But as usual ADMK General Secretary Jayalalitha issued a statement saying the final award was “unacceptable award” and “Karunanidhi could not get for Tamil Nadu the just award to be secured from the Tribunal in Cauvery issue. Accepting moral responsibility DMK government should resign”.
The same Jayalalitha now claims that only she strove for the notification of final award in the Central gazette and that the DMK did not make any effort.
Even at the time of release of the final award of the Tribunal, not willing to take unilateral decision like Jayalalitha, the DMK government took decisions only by convening all-party leaders meetings on 19.2.2007and 15.4.2007. But now without convening any such all-party meetings honouring democratic tradition, Jayalalitha functioning as if whatever she thinks is the decision.
Hence the truth is only that Jayalalitha did not accept the interim and final awards of the Cauvery Tribunal. Did she at least accept the Cauvery River Authority?
The announcement of setting up of Cauvery River Authority was made on 11.8.1998. Jayalalitha told the Assembly on 2.4.2002 that “the Cauvery River Authority was non-functional and toothless authority; we came out of the BJP alliance not accepting that authority”.
Without thinking over in detail about the consequences and adamantly sticking to her stand, Jayalalitha decided and announced in the Cabinet meeting held on 21.6.2002, “the Cauvery River Authority, without any powers, is unable to effectively execute the award of the Cauvery Tribunal. Hence Tamil Nadu will not participate in the meetings of this authority henceforth”.
It was Jayalalitha who said in July 2002 that they would boycott Cauvery Authority. On the next day she said “let us see if invited”. But as far I am concerned, even when not in power, I wrote a letter to Prime Minister Vajpayee on 5.7.2002 to immediately convene the authority meeting. In his reply on 10.7.2002 to my letter of 5.7.2002, the Prime Minister said he would look into it. Accordingly the CRA was convened.
At the meeting of the CRA participated by the PM on 27.8.2002, instead of finding way to get water by holding cordial talks and forgetting the urgent importance of the issue, Jayalalitha, with her own ill-temper, walked of the meeting in the middle of proceedings. On 29.11.2002 again the CRA meeting was held and Karnataka Chief Minister reached Delhi the previous day itself. But Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha cancelled her Delhi trip itself keep telling all along that she would come. Loss for whom? Only for farmers of Tamil Nadu!
Meanwhile, the Bench of the Supreme Court took serious objection to the letter of Jayalalitha to the Prime Minister stating her lack of faith in the CRA chaired by the Prime Minister and directed the counsel for Tamil Nadu to withdraw that defamatory letter within four days. Counsel for Tamil Nadu and senior advocate K.K.Venugopal told the Bench that “Tamil Nadu had full faith in the Prime Minister and the CRA chaired by him. TN Chief Minister Jayalalitha would again write a letter to the Prime Minister conveying faith in the CRA and withdrawing the earlier letter”.
Accordingly in the letter written to the Prime Minister on 16.11.2002 Jayalalitha had said that she had great personal respect for the Prime Minister and forgetting all she had already stated she had full faith in the CRA.
If the conduct of Jayalalitha ignoring the interests of delta district farmers at every stage in the Cauvery river water issue, is to be compiled and said,
Even when the interim award of the Tribunal was released, she said only if Karnataka released water on its own we would get it.
She sent reply after nine months delay to a letter from the Centre on the implementation of the interim award.
During her regime from 1991 to 1996, she did not make any effort for implementing interim award.
It was Jayalalitha who stated in a petition to Prime Minister V.P.Singh on behalf of the ADMK that the Cauvery Agreement lapsed in 1974.
Without participating in the CRA meeting on 29.11.2002 she cancelled it. Thus we can go on telling.
Jayalalitha, under the impression that the world would have forgotten this date-wise incidents and hence she could tell anything, is trying to mudsling on me. The DMK might have lost victory chance in the recently held Lok Sabha elections. But from the very fact that whether writing letter to the Prime Minister or issuing statements, Jayalalitha’s mind revolved around the DMK, the world will understand for whom is the real victory!
Affectionately,
M.K.
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