Chennai: Citing reports of Tamil Nadu government gearing up for a meeting of the Cauvery supervisory committee, DMK chief M. Karunanidhi on Saturday said the committee is a powerless body and demanded that a review petition should be filed in the Supreme Court to get 96 tmc of water from Karnataka.
He said the supervisory committee is a toothless body as it did not have legal sanction and no power to control the states. Tamil Nadu government should ask the Supreme Court to direct the Centre to form the Cauvery Management Board and Cauvery Water Regulation Committee within a specified time.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had refused to intervene on the issue as the matter before the Supreme Court, the DMK leader said and charged that the activities of Tamil Nadu government is not transparent on the issue. He also said the Chief Minister had not received President Pranab Mukherjee as per protocol and details of convening state cabinet meeting on Cauvery issue had not been shared with the media.
The total quantity of water that should be released by Karnataka is 96 tmc as per the final verdict of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal, he added.
