Bring resolution in Assembly over Palar checkdam by AP: DMK

Leader of Opposition and DMK treasurer MK Stalin today urged the ruling AIADMK to bring a resolution in the Assembly over the Palar river issue in view of Andhra Pradesh taking steps to increase the height of a check dam there.
He hit out at AIADMK chief and Chief Minister Jayalalithaa for "just writing a letter" to her Andhra Pradesh counterpart Chandrababu Naidu over the issue and blamed her for "delayed" filing of a case in Supreme Court in this regard.
Presiding over a protest demonstration here, he claimed government hurriedly went to the apex court yesterday after his party announced a protest over the Palar issue.

DMK's stir comes weeks after Andhra Pradesh took up work to increase the height of a checkdam from five to 12 feet at Perumballam village in Chittoor district on the AP-TN border.
Also, Jayalalithaa had written to Chandrababu Naidu on the issue. She had told him that Palar was an inter-state river covered under Madras-Mysore Agreement of 1892.
Hence, Andhra Pradesh could not take any work without the consent of TN and a case was also pending (filed in 2006) in the apex court over Palar, she had said asking him to get the level of the check dam reduced to its original level.

The state government approached the Supreme Court yesterday over Andhra Pradesh's action of raising the height of the check-dam.

"We welcome filing the case. But why delay? Why you did not get an order for maintaining status quo ante?" he asked.
He also wanted to know if Jayalalithaa should not go and meet Chandrababu Naidu and PM Modi on this issue.
Stalin recalled that when DMK was in power, he and another senior minister, Duraimurugan had called on Naidu on the Palar issue.
He slammed Andhra Pradesh for taking up work on the checkdam when a matter related to the same issue (2006 case) was already pending in the Supreme Court.

He also hit out at the neighbouring state for allegedly taking over control of a temple situated at the dam site, hitherto administered by the Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department.
He said the AIADMK government "is in such a situation wherein it could not even question" Andhra Pradesh's action.
Stating that districts of Tamil Nadu, including Vellore, Kanchipuram, Tiruvannamalai, and even parts of Chennai depended on Palar, he said a resolution should be brought in and adopted in the Assembly so as to help find out a solution to the issue.
He said Andhra Pradesh's attitude on this issue should be condemned in the resolution.