State News And Discussion - 3

[ramana]

So from my review TN got a bit more but not much more.
However:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Jaya still thirsty for Cauvery water </b>
 
Chennai, Feb. 6: Opposition leader and AIADMK supremo J. Jayalalithaa on Tuesday said the Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal’s final award was a “big setback” for the farmers of Tamil Nadu. She demanded that DMK chief M. Karunanidhi accept moral responsibility for it and resign as chief minister.

<b>Arguing that the tribunal’s award of 192 thousand million cubic feet (tmc ft) of Cauvery water to be released by Karnataka to Tamil Nadu was much less than the 205 tmc ft given in its interim order (in 1991), Ms Jayalalithaa said a further seven tmc ft would be taken away from Tamil Nadu’s share to be given to Puducherry, which effectively meant that the state would get only 185 tmc ft from Karnataka.</b>

“This minority DMK government should quit owning moral responsibility for failure to get full justice for Tamil Nadu’s farmers,” said former chief minister Jayalalitha. “The government has issued a statement in support of the tribunal award. Also, Karunanidhi has declared happiness over the award. It appears that the farmers’ misery pleases him. The farmers in Tamil Nadu will no longer have water and must be content with only tears,” she said.  <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->

She said Tamil Nadu’s only option now was to move the Supreme Court to get more Cauvery water. The state should simultaneously prevail upon the Centre to get this final award notified in the gazette and appoint a regulatory authority to monitor monthly water releases,

Ms Jayalalithaa said, adding, “But then, people are already convinced that Karunanidhi will not do any of this.” <b>“The people of Tamil Nadu know very well that Karunanidhi has been working in favour of Karnataka even from the time he was the state PWD minister in 1967. He had liberally allowed Karnataka to construct any number of dams (on the Cauvery) and thus betrayed Tamil Nadu. He failed to renew the Cauvery agreement with Karnataka in 1974,” </b>Ms Jayalalithaa said.  <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->

<b>She alleged that Mr Karunanidhi was soft towards Karnataka because his family ran TV channels in that state at “great profit”. </b>For the same commercial reasons <b>he would not prevent the “atrocious” allocation by the tribunal of 30 tmc ft to Kerala</b>, she claimed. “Great injustice has been done to farmers in the Bhavani delta as five tmc ft water is going to be given from the Bhavani dam to Kerala,” she said
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I think one way to ensure regional harmony is to have an Election Commission notification that regional parties can contest National elections only if they contest in a minimum of two/three adjacent states and also win 10% of the votes cast in the other states. This will ensure that folks like Jayalalitha and Devagowda have to be nice to the neighboring states. The tribunal gave TN more water than in 1991 and here she wants to create problems for everyone and cause inter-state disgruntlement. She can't win on issues and now wants to create a new one. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Need to bring back regional harmony. Linguistic divison was not to create new animosities.