Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami went on a day-long hunger strike along with members of the AIADMK to “condemn” the Centre for not setting up the Cauvery Management Board in compliance with the Supreme Court order.
The AIADMK stated, “The hunger strike is to condemn the central government for not forming the CMB.”
Fisheries Minister D Jayakumar and AIADMK presidium chairman E Madusudanan also joined their party colleagues for the day-long fast.
The apex court had raised the 270 tmcft share of Karnataka by 14.75 tmcft and reduced Tamil Nadu's share of Cauvery water. However, the Supreme Court had granted the Centre six weeks to formulate a scheme to ensure compliance of its 465-page judgement, which modified the Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal award as well.
Following the verdict, Tamil Nadu has been urging the Centre to set up the Cauvery Water Management Board and the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee to ensure that it received its due share of water from the inter-state river. The six-week period ended on March 29.
