Mounting pressure on Centre, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Saturday insisted the final order of the Cauvery Tribunal be notified considering the withering crops in the state even as she expressed doubts over DMK’s intentions on the issue.
Recalling the recent meeting of DMK MPs with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the behest of party chief M Karunanidhi, she expressed doubts if they really took up with him the issue of gazette notification of the final award of the Cauvery tribunal as mentioned by the DMK patriarch.
In a statement here, she indicated the DMK government in 2007 did not adopt proper steps to get the final order notified even as her party had made a strong pitch for it, besides moving the Supreme Court against some provisions, though the Karunanidhi government approached the Tribunal once again, but unsuccessfully. However, she had not only written to Singh after coming to power in the past year, urging the order be notified but had also taken up with him the matter in person.
She recalled her government had moved the court early this year and following this Centre gave an undertaking that the award would be notified by December-end.
Following a delay, she had twice written to the Prime Minister, she said, adding, 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.
Jayalalithaa indicated despite having been a part of the ruling UPA coalition and previously ruling the state till last year, DMK MPs had not met Singh on this matter.
