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By Gargi Parsai
The meeting has been prompted by the Supreme Court's direction to Karnataka on Monday to release 1.25 tmc ft Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu everyday till a meeting of the Cauvery River Authority, chaired by the Prime Minister, takes a decision to resolve the crisis. The court observed that its order "shall stand automatically superseded by the decision taken by the CRA.'' However, even as the participation of all the Chief Secretaries for the September 7 meeting is not confirmed yet, the Karnataka Chief Minister, S. M. Krishna, has requested the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, to convene a meeting of the CRA before September 9, when he leaves for a nine-day overseas tour. Inquiries from the PMO said no decision had been taken on the request yet. In the last meeting of the CRA on August 27, Mr. Krishna had objected to the distress sharing formula framed by the Central Water Commission. Nor did he agree to release Tamil Nadu's share of Cauvery water under the interim award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal, saying that the State was under distress. The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, walked out in protest alleging that Karnataka was "buying time'' to delay the release of water. The CRA later decided that the CMC would meet within a fortnight to work out a distress sharing formula and the CRA in the third week of this month to evolve a formula. Krishna pinning hopes on PM The Karnataka Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, who has bowed to the inevitable of obeying the Supreme Court order on releasing 1.25 tmcft (thousand million cubic feet) of Cauvery waters a day to Tamil Nadu, is pinning his hopes on the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, convening an early meeting of the Cauvery River Authority (CRA). The State has got the impression that Mr. Vajpayee would convene a CRA meeting before September 9 when he leaves for the United States. Mr. Krishna today called on four former Chief Ministers of the State seeking guidance on coping with the Cauvery crisis. He met Ramakrishna Hegde and S.R.Bommai, former Janata Dal Chief Ministers, and S. Bangarappa, MP, and Veerappa Moily, who belong to the Congress. Mr. Krishna's gesture came in for praise from all the four. Last night, he called on the former Prime Minister and JD (S) leader, H.D. Deve Gowda. The Chief Minister called on the Governor, T.N.Chaturvedi, and explained the situation in parts of the State following the Supreme Court directive and the steps being taken to maintain law and order. The meetings were aimed at evolving a consensus in favour of the steps being taken by the Government to deal with the ticklish situation — the Government can ignore neither the Supreme Court directive nor the adverse public opinion especially in Mandya district over releasing water to Tamil Nadu at a time of distress in the State as also the abduction of the former Minister, Nagappa. Mr. Krishna told presspersons after meeting Mr. Hegde that Mr. Vajpayee had responded positively to the State's request for convening a meeting of the CRA before September 9 to resolve the crisis. Mr. Hegde supported Mr. Krishna's efforts on the Cauvery as well as Nagappa issues. He disfavoured viewing such matters from a political angle.
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