Tamil Nadu parties are divided regarding the Cauvery river dispute as the ruling AIADMK’s reluctance to categorically condemn the BJP government at the centre for failing to set up the Cauvery Management Board and the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee.
However, the opposition parties in the state were outright in their condemnation of the BJP and accused it of delaying the setting up of the CMB considering its political implication in the poll-bound Karnataka which is going to polls on May 12.
The ruling AIADMK is holding a state-wide hunger strike in all district headquarters as an “appeal” to the Centre to set up the CMB and the CWRC. While parties such as the Congress, MDMK, CPI (M), CPI, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi, IUML and Manithaneya Makkal Katchi have called for a state bandh on April 5.
Federation of Traders’ Association in Tamil Nadu has called for the traders to shut their shops on April 3 while Pattali Makkal Katchi has called for a bandh on April 11.
