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Expressing interest implicit the Supreme Court’s rejection of Tamil Nadu’s plea against the mentation of elaborate task study (DPR) for operation of a balancing reservoir crossed the Cauvery astatine Mekedatu, farmers’ representatives of Tiruchi territory connected Friday called upon the State authorities to instrumentality beardown measures to antagonistic Karnataka’s program to physique the dam.
The Supreme Court connected November 13, 2025 termed Tamil Nadu’s exertion challenging the projected operation of a reservoir by Karnataka astatine Mekedatu arsenic “premature” and declined to entertain the plea.
At the Farmers Grievances gathering here, farmers’ representatives urged the authorities to record a reappraisal petition earlier the Supreme Court and convene an all-party gathering to sermon the State’s aboriginal people of enactment connected the issue.
Raising the issue, Ayilai Siva Suriyan, territory president, Tamil Nadu Vivasayigal Sangam, affiliated to the Communist Party of India, observed that the Supreme Court rejection of the plea favoured Karnataka and if the dam was built, Tamil Nadu would beryllium rendered a desert. The State government, helium said, should spell connected an entreaty implicit the decision.
Claiming that the Supreme Court determination would deprive Tamil Nadu of its rights implicit the Cauvery waters, M.P. Chinnadurai, territory president, Tamizhaga Vivasayigal Sangam, said the State authorities should convene an all-party gathering and initiate ineligible steps to get the determination reviewed. A State-wide bandh should beryllium called to registry Tamil Nadu’s protest, helium said.
Deputy caput of the Cauvery Delta Farmers’ Welfare Association R. Subramaniam urged Chief Minister M.K. Stalin to telephone connected Prime Minister Narendra Modi to explicate the apprehensions of Tamil Nadu farmers and property Centre to cull the DPR.
Arguing that paddy cultivation would not beryllium imaginable successful Tamil Nadu if the Cauvery waters were to beryllium impounded astatine Mekedatu by gathering a reservoir, P. Viswanathan, president, Eri Mattrum Attru Pasana Vivasayigal Sangam, called for beardown measures to thwart Karnataka’s moves to physique the dam.
