Veeramani urges govt. to move court, mobilise opinion against Mekedatu project

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Dravidar Kazhagam president   K. Veeramani starring  a protestation  successful  Tiruvarur connected  Saturday against Karnataka’s projected  Mekedatu dam project.

Dravidar Kazhagam president K. Veeramani starring a protestation successful Tiruvarur connected Saturday against Karnataka’s projected Mekedatu dam project. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Dravidar Kazhagam president K. Veeramani connected Sunday urged the Tamil Nadu authorities to instantly attack the tribunal and mobilise nationalist sentiment against the projected Mekedatu dam task successful Karnataka, terming it a menace to State’s livelihood rights.

Speaking to reporters aft starring a protestation successful Tiruvarur condemning Karnataka’s determination to prosecute preliminary enactment for the Mekedatu dam project, Mr. Veeramani said Karnataka was continuing its efforts contempt warnings from the Supreme Court.

He alleged the task posed a superior menace to Tamil Nadu’s rights implicit Cauvery h2o and said specified soundlessness oregon submission of petitions by the Tamil Nadu authorities would not suffice.

Mr. Veeramani called upon the State authorities to convene an all-party meeting, attack the judiciary and instrumentality the contented earlier the people.

Pointing retired that governmental parties successful Karnataka had agreed connected the Cauvery contented irrespective of ideological differences, helium said governmental parties successful Tamil Nadu excessively should emergence supra partisan considerations successful safeguarding the State’s h2o rights.

“The contented does not necessitate politics, but statesmanship,” helium said and added that it was the work of the Union authorities to get astatine a lasting solution earlier protests intensified further.

Referring to the Prime Minister’s slogan of “One Nation, One Election”, Mr. Veeramani questioned wherefore disputes implicit inter-State stream h2o sharing wrong the state could not beryllium resolved expeditiously erstwhile h2o disputes betwixt nations were being addressed.

Published - May 31, 2026 08:42 p.m. IST

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