Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, while mounting pressure on Centre, today insisted that the final order of the Cauvery Tribunal be notified considering the withering crops in her state.
Last year also she had written to Singh urging that the order be notified and also took up the issue with him in person.
She expressed doubts over the recent meeting of DMK parliamentarians (MPs) with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and questioned whether the issue of gazette notification of the final award of the Cauvery tribunal was indeed taken up or not?
She indicated that the DMK government in 2007 did not take proper steps to get the final order notified even as her party (AIDMK) had made a strong pitch for it. Besides AIDMK had moved to the Supreme Court (SC) against some provisions, though the Karunanidhi government had approached the Tribunal once again, but unsuccessfully.
Jayalalithaa said early this year her government had moved the SC following which the Centre gave an undertaking that the award will be notified by December end.
Following a delay, she said, she had twice written to the Prime Minister, and in the meantime Karunanidhi had asked his partymen to make a representation with Singh.
"If the DMK MPs had indeed sought notifying the order, it must have been given in writing and Karunanidhi should have released that to the media. But (he) has not released it so far. This makes it clear there was no written representation," she said.