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.
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.
The Himachal Pradesh committee of the Communist Party of India Marxist (CPI-M) has demanded that the state government should convene an all-party meeting to prepare a blueprint of the loss due to rains and landslides which will be submitted to the Union government so that the calamity is
Deputy CM DK Shivakumar, former Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader BS Yediyurappa, Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) leader HD Kumaraswamy, BJP MP Tejasvi Surya, Lok Sabha MP Sumalatha Ambareesh and several other leaders are present at the meeting.
“President has called for all party meet to end the deadlock ongoing in a house for Tuesday morning. The meeting has been called for 8:30 AM (Local Time) at President's Office,” said Kiran Pokharel, press advisor to Nepal President confirmed ANI over the phone.
"Karnataka government is calling an all-party meeting on water disputes related to Cauvery...it is on Wednesday (23rd August). I have called some senior Parliament members to be part of the meeting...to seek the solution we have called this meeting," said Karnataka Dy CM DK Shivakumar.