Stalin Meets Panneerselvam, Urges Special Session on Cauvery

MK Stalin asked the government to form an all-party delegation to meet Prime Minister Modi in New Delhi. (Photo Courtesy: The News Minute)

On Friday, DMK treasurer and leader of the opposition MK Stalin led a delegation of party MLAs to meet Tamil Nadu’s finance minister O Panneerselvam and PWD minister Edappadi K Palaniswami. He urged them to convene a special session of the assembly to pass a resolution on the Cauvery issue. Furthermore, he asked the government to form an all-party delegation to meet Prime Minister Modi in New Delhi.

In the absence of chief minister J Jayalalithaa, who has been hospitalised since 22 September, Panneerselvam, who was allocated the key portfolios held by her, promised to look into the issue.

Though the state government is not convening an all-party meeting, Karnataka parties are united when it comes to the Cauvery issue. We also need to show to the people that Tamil Nadu parties are together on the issue.

MK Stalin, DMK Treasurer and Leader of Opposition 

Three resolutions were passed at the meeting, the primary one being convening a session to pass a resolution on Cauvery. (Photo: IANS)

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According to The Times of India, the meeting comes a day after farmers' associations and representatives of political parties including DMK and Congress got together to pass resolutions on the Cauvery water sharing dispute.

Three resolutions were passed at the meeting, the primary one being convening a session to pass a resolution on Cauvery. The second resolution condemned the Centre's refusal to constitute the Cauvery management board.

A third resolution authorised Stalin to act on the issue after the case is heard by the Supreme Court on 18 October.

(Source: The Times of India)