Nara Lokesh, son of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, on Saturday chaired the Telugu Desam Party Parliamentary Party meeting in the national capital.
While an all-party meeting was underway over the Cauvery water dispute in Karnataka, DMK spokesperson TKS Elangovan on Wednesday said that the neighbouring state does not have any authority to deny water to Tamil Nadu.
Responding to the all-party meeting, convened by the Centre ahead of the Special Session of Parliament, the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI), D Raja on Wednesday said that it is a "routine meeting".
"We have faced a severe deficit of rain in August compared to the previous 100 years. We don't have water, that's why we are not in a position to release water as per the SC order," Siddaramaiah said.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah convened an all-party meeting on Wednesday to discuss the next course of action after the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee directed the state government to release 5,000 cusecs of water to neighbouring Tamil Nadu over the next 15 days.
After concluding the all-party meeting on the Maratha reservation, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Monday said that the government has decided to give reservations to Marathas and accepted many of the protesters' demands.
Maratha outfits have called for a bandh on Monday (September 11) in protest against the recent lathi charge by the police in Jalna district against protesters demanding reservation in Maharashtra.
Former Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition Jai Ram Thakur chaired the meeting. He said that the homeless and landless people after the disaster are the biggest issues in the state.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday addressed an all-party meeting in Assam's Tinsukia and said that the state government, in the next 45 days, will finalize the Bill to ban polygamy in the state.