All party meet on Cauvery issue on Feb 22; DMK to participate

February 19, 2018 20:30

Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK today called for an all-party meet on February 22 to discuss the Supreme Court verdict on the Cauvery issue, scuttling the opposition DMK's plan for a similar discussion.

The announcement comes a day after the DMK said it had decided to convene an all-party meet on the issue, accusing the AIADMK of not heeding to its demand for such an exercise.

"The Tamil Nadu government will immediately take steps on the issue after consulting and getting the views of leaders of all parties," an official release here said.

Apparently caught off guard, the DMK said it would participate in the meeting and announced its cancellation.

DMK working president M K Stalin welcomed the announcement of the all-party meeting and said his party would participate and give constructive suggestions to the government on the issue.

He also said representatives of farmers' associations should be invited as their opinion on the issue was crucial.

"A proposed all-party meeting called by the DMK in this regard now stands cancelled," he said.

Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam claimed that Stalin announced the all-party meet after "somehow coming to know" that the government had decided to elicit the views of all parties on the issue.

The AIADMK's decision to hold an all-party meet is a marked departure from the stand of late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on similar matters.

Though the DMK, all along, sought such meetings on key issues like the Cauvery matter, Jayalalithaa had not acceded to it.

The meeting on the Cauvery issues comes after a gap of several years. A similar meet was held during the previous DMK regime when M Karunanidhi was the chief minister.

Yesterday, Palaniswami had said the Tamil Nadu government would go through the Supreme Court verdict, which reduced the quantum of Cauvery water for the state, and consult legal experts on going for an appeal.

-- PTI

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