DMK president M Karunanidhi today urged Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa to lead an all -party delegation to New Delhi to press for setting up of the Cauvery Management Board and Cauvery Water Regulatory Authority without delay.
"The Chief Minister should lead a delegation of political party leaders, MLAs and MPs to Delhi and pressurise the Prime Minister unanimously for setting up the Cauvery Management Board and Cauvery Water Regulatory Authority without any further delay," he said in a statement here.
He also took a dig at Jayalalithaa for writing to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Cauvery issue, saying she should take steps in a progressive manner, rather than writing letters to the PM.
The chief minister had yesterday sought Centre's intervention to ensure that Karnataka complied with the final order of the Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal.
"Instead of releasing our legitimate share as per the final order of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal, Karnataka continues to utilise all the water in its reservoirs as if it owns the Cauvery river, with scant regard to the plight of the farmers in Tamil Nadu," Jayalalithaa had said in the letter.
Karunanidhi said the water level in the four dams across river Cauvery in that state was 74.23 TMC as of yesterday and urged the state PWD minister to meet the Karnataka chief minister and urge him to release water as per the agreement prescribed by the Tribunal, to safeguard samba crop.
He noted that the Karnataka government had taken all its ministers and MPs to Delhi and met Modi for meeting the state's demand and said it was "shameful" that the AIADMK government had not even convened an all-party meeting on the Cauvery issue.
