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Karnataka stops Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, farmers jubilant
Tuesday October 09, 2012 06:31:52 AM,
IANS
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Bangalore/New Delhi: Karnataka late Monday stopped releasing Cauvery river water to
Tamil Nadu, hours after the state informed the Supreme Court that
it was in no position to continue the water flow from Monday
night, a senior official said.
The five crest gates of Krishanaraja Sagar (KRS) reservoir in
Mandya, about 80 km from here, through which Cauvery water was
being released to Tamil Nadu have been shut, the reservoir's chief
executive engineer Vijayakumar told reporters in Mandya.
Hundreds of farmers gathered at the reservoir to try to prevent
water release raised slogans welcoming the stoppage when Janata
Dal-Secular legislator C.S. Puttaraju, who had led them, confirmed
that water flow had stopped.
Earlier Monday, Karnataka Law Minister S. Suresh Kumar told
reporters in New Delhi that senior counsel Fali Nariman
representing the state had informed the Supreme Court that the
state was in no position to release the water from Monday night.
There was no comment from the court on this submission nor did
Tamil Nadu advocates raise objection to it, he said.
The submission was made when the Supreme Court was hearing
Karnataka's plea to immediately allow the state to stop water
release to Tamil Nadu.
Karnataka moved the court as it had Sep 28 pulled it up for not
obeying the Sep 19 ruling of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as head
of Cauvery River Authority (CRA) that it should release 9,000
cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu from Sep 20 to Oct 15.
Karnataka began releasing water Sep 29 which had led to daily
protests in Bangalore and Cauvery basin districts of Mandya,
Mysore and Chamarajanagar - 80 km, 130 km and about 200 km
respectively from Bangalore.
Karnataka had also been pleading with the prime minister to review
and stay his ruling.
The Supreme Court bench of bench of Justice D.K Jain and Justice
Madan B. Lokur also clarified that their Sep 28 order "shall not
in anyway be an impediment in the way of chairman CRA to take
decision on review application by the Karnataka government".
Soon after the clarification, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar
announced in New Delhi that the state would file another appeal to
the CRA to withdraw the Sep 19 order.
Earlier in the day, a delegation of central ministers from
Karnataka, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna, who hails from
Mandya, Labour Minister Mallikarjun Kharge and Minister of State
for Railways K.H. Muniyappa met Manmohan Singh and urged him to
immediately review his Sep 19 ruling.
A team of 16 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parliament members from
the state also met Manmohan Singh with the same plea.
However, immediate review by the prime minister was unlikely as
the central government stand is that he gave the ruling as CRA
head and only a meeting of CRA can do so.
The CRA, headed by the prime minister, comprises central water
resources minister and chief ministers of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu,
Kerala and Puducherry, all of which have a share in Cauvery water.
Central Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, who was
present when the two teams met Manmohan Singh, reiterated the
stand Monday.
He told reporters after the meeting that the prime minister had
given the ruling Sep 19 as head of CRA. It was not the decision of
the prime minister but of the CRA and the CRA would have to meet
to review the decision, Bansal asserted.
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