Cauvery Issue: DMK calls all-party meet on May 22

DMK working president MK Stalin will chair the meeting to be held at 10 am at the party headquarters Anna Arivalayam, to discuss the Supreme Court giving the go ahead to the draft scheme and directing the Centre to implement it before the onset of the monsoon season.

The meeting, which was originally schedule for this week, was deferred following the developments in the case in the apex court.

Earlier in the day, participating in a party functionary’s wedding in the delta region, Stalin advised Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami to establish friendly ties with the new secular government to be formed in Karnataka to get Cauvery water released. Claiming that there was disruption in the state realising the stipulated quantum of water during the last seven years, Stalin said that though a good solution has been found legally on the vexed Cauvery dispute, the TN Chief Minister should establish friendly ties with his Karnataka counterpart, whose secular government would be formed in three days there, to get water to ensure scheduled release of water from Mettur Dam for Kuruvai on June 12.

“If the state government failed to take steps, the DMK will mobilise the support of farmers and stage an agitation,” the DMK working president, who is also the Leader of Opposition cautioned.