Farmer bodies, Kannada organisations, and opposition parties have called for a 'Bandh' today in the city to protest against the order of the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) directing the state to release 5000 cusecs of water to its neighbouring state, Tamil Nadu, for 15 days, effec
Bengaluru Police Commissioner, B Dayananda said that Section 144 will be imposed in the city under which gatherings of more than five people will not be permitted.
"Bandh call was given by various organizations in Mandya with respect to the Cauvery water issue. On behalf of the police, we have made elaborate arrangements," DIG Southern Range MB Boralingaiah said.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday said that pontiffs, farmers and the citizens of Bengaluru will become rebels if the state government continues to neglect the Cauvery water row adding that the Siddaramaiah government is behaving casually in this matter.
This development comes amid the Karnataka government seeking a stay on the Cauvery Water Management Authority order passed earlier seeking to release 5000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu for 15 days till September 26.
A bench of Justices BR Gavai, PS Narasimha and Prashant Kumar Mishra while refusing to interfere in the Cauvery water dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu said both CWMA and Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC) are regularly meeting and monitoring the water requirements every 15 day
During the meeting held in New Delhi on Thursday, the visiting delegation had detailed discussions with the Union minister over the cauvery issue, they said.
After the meeting with Union Ministers and All-Party MPs on the Cauvery Water issue, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has said that the Prime Minister should intervene in the matter as he has the jurisdiction to summon the people of both the states.
A meeting chaired by Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah with Union Ministers and All-Party MPs to discuss the Cauvery water-sharing dispute has begun in the national capital today.
Ahead of the meeting in Delhi today, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar has said that all the MPs of the state will meet today and together we will safeguard the interests of Karnataka.
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar along with several ministers met Union Minister Prahlad Joshi and discussed the Cauvery issue last night in Delhi.
A delegation from Tamil Nadu led by a minister is headed for New Delhi to meet Union water resources minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat to discuss the Cauvery water sharing issue, which has been a bone of contention of late with neighbouring Karnataka.