Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Monday said the situation could go out of hand if the neighbouring states continued their discriminatory attitude against it.
CHENNAI: Charging the upper riparian states of Tamil Nadu with harassing the state in water issues, Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Monday said the situation could go out of hand if the neighbouring states continued their discriminatory attitude against it.
Alleging that the Centre was not giving attention to such issues, Karunanidhi told the assembly, "It seems the Centre will turn its attention only when something untoward
happened".
Warning that a war among states was likely on water issues, he said he would visit Delhi within a month to discuss the issues with the Centre.
Replying to the issues of water disputes between the state and the neigbouring states of Karnataka, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh, he said "Tamil Nadu is tired of negotiating
with neigbouring states. There is no use in holding negotiations."
The DMK had earlier demanded a Dravidian nation. The conduct of the neighbouring states would pose a threat to national integrity, he said.
Asserting that linking of rivers would be the only solution to Tamil Nadu's problems, he said he had asked AICC president Sonia Gandhi to announce the date when the
foundation stone for the project of linking rivers would be laid.
Tamil Nadu did not have land and water resources and the neighbouring states should co-operate, he said adding a solution should be found.
The negotiations on the Cauvery issue which started in 1968 have not ended till date. Even after the final verdict of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal, there were questions on whether it would be implemented.
Cauvery issue could have been solved when Deve Gowda was the Prime Minister. Tamil Nadu and Karnataka had arrived at an amicable solution, which was thwarted at the final moment by Deve Gowda, who said there was no need for the settlement since Megadhadu project would solve the water problems of Tamil Nadu.
Similarly, Tamil Nadu was facing problems from Kerala in Mullaperiyar issue and from Andhra Pradesh in the Palar river issue, he said.
Earlier, State PWD Minister K Duraimurugan said Kerala government was demanding money for releasing water from Neyyar river. "I have never known a state which demands money for providing water for irrigation. But, it is the case with Marxists-ruled Kerala," he said while replying to CPI-M member John Joseph.
He said Kerala Irrigation Minister N K Premachandran, in a letter to Tamil Nadu, had said that the Kerala assembly had passed a resolution on April 20 this year to release water from Neyyar to Tamil Nadu after realising the cost of water.
Premachandran said Kerala was in the process of finalising a draft by realising the cost of water and it could not implement the agreement on Neyyar as circumstances had
changed, Duraimurugan said.
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