Mysuru: Farmers’ leaders responded angrily to the order of the Cauvery Supervisory Committee asking the state to release 3000 cusecs of water per day from September 21 to 30 to Tamil Nadu.
One farmers' leader, Nanjunde Gowda warned on Monday there could be more violence in Karnataka as a result of the fresh order.“We have held all kind of peaceful agitations, but now things could turn violent if they release even one more drop of water,” he declared, adding, “If they release water now there will not be enough even for drinking. It is inhuman.
Our Chief Minister is only concerned about being in power. The state government has failed to convince the Union government, which only wants to pacify Tamil Nadu for political reasons. If they want to release all the water, why should there be a Krishna Raja Sagar dam at all? Let them open the last gate forever.”
Cauvery Hitharakshana Vedike head, G Madegowda said if the government was able to give Tamil Nadu water , it should also give its own farmers water for irrigation. “Otherwise let them announce compensation for the crop loss. And if that is not possible, let Chief Minister Siddaramaiah resign. We will not stop our agitation,” he asserted.
Meanwhile, even as agitations continued backed by pontiffs of various maths in Mandya, as much as 11,995 cusecs of water was released from KRS and Kabini reservoirs to Tamil Nadu on Monday and supply of water for irrigation to the state’s farmers was stopped.
Seers of Adi Chunchangiri Math, Nirmalananda swami and, JSS Math, Shivarathri Deshikendra Swami were among the pontiffs who joined the farmers in their agitation. As much as 49.56 TMC of water has been released to Tamil Nadu this year and following the recent Supreme Court order, 13.604 TMC has been released since September 7. In the process, the storage of the reservoirs of the Cauvery basin has dropped drastically.
