Jaya tells Centre not to wait till Aug 12 for notifying Cauvery award
All India Anna DMK chief J
Jayalalitha today asked the Centre to notify the draft scheme for
the implementation of the Cauvery water disputes tribunal's interim
award without waiting till August 12, the deadline set by the
Supreme Court.
In a strongly worded five page statement, Jayalalitha accused
the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the Centre of trying to wriggle out of
the situation. Those who have taken upon themselves the
responsibility for the governance of the whole country, should not
not be partisan and given in to sectarian demands, she added.
She was referring to news reports quoting senior BJP leaders that
the party could not ignore the feelings of the people of
Karnataka from where 13 BJP MPs had been elected.
Is the BJP leadership going to take administrative decisions
based only on narrow, selfish political calculations, she asked.
Jayalaitha's formal response to the adjournment of the case
in the Supreme Court till August 12 is silent on her earlier warning
to the Centre that any delay in notifying the draft scheme would
lead to "disastrous consequences".
She described Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Madan Lal
Khurana's statement calling a meeting of the chief ministers of
the riparian states to discuss the meeting, as a ploy to delay a
decision on the issue.
Jayalalitha singled out the BJP for attack on the issue and said
the party has resorted to the undesirable strategy of somehow
delaying the notification of the draft scheme.
It was the Supreme Court that has held them in check and bound
them to a specific time-frame, she added.
She described as unfortunate, the statements attributed
to some BJP leaders that they could not be expected to solve the
issue in four months, while the interim award itself was given
seven years ago. If this was their attitude how were they going to
implement the national agenda, which included a solution to the
vexed Cauvery dispute, she asked.
Jayalalitha chided the BJP leaders for airing their views
openly in the media. This may be because they had been in the
opposition ranks for too long, she surmised.
Jayalalitha advised the BJP to display the political will to
take correct decisions. After assuming responsibility for governing
the country, the verdict of the judiciary should be honoured and the
orders of the courts should be carried out, she said.
She said the BJP should not make calculations on the basis
of the number of its MPs from Karnataka, which was 13, as against
only three MPs from Tamil Nadu.
It should not betray the people of Tamil Nadu who voted for
the democratic progressive front and elected 30 MPs, she added.
Jayalalitha's statement is surprisingly silent on the DMK
government in Tamil Nadu, which she has often bitterly criticised
for not resolving the Cauvery issue.
She recalled that the Karnataka government had not changed
its position on the interim award in the last seven years.
The suit filed by Karnataka against the interim award was also
dismissed by the Supreme Court.
UNI
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