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The Karnataka Government had "consistently disobeyed" the orders of the Cauvery Tribunal, the Cauvery River Authority and the Supreme Court order, and two contempt of court petitions were pending against him in the apex court. "When the matter is sub judice," talks would be "meaningless" and "of no purpose". Asked if the Supreme Court could find a solution to the inter-State dispute, she shot back: "You can't come to a conclusion that it will not". The Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, in his recent statement, had stated that the court would find a good solution. Asked about the Centre-State relations in the wake of Mr. Vajpayee's failure to back Tamil Nadu on the Cauvery issue and provide the Rs. 3,000-crore bailout package sought to tide over the State's financial crisis, the Chief Minister, after a pause, said: "It is okay". On her Government's recent controversial ordinance banning "forcible" religious conversions, Ms. Jayalalithaa asserted that a review of the ordinance was not "necessary" and it had adequate safeguards against misuse. The Government would enact legislation replacing the ordinance in the Assembly session beginning tomorrow. However, she dismissed suggestions that the ordinance brought her closer to the BJP. "It is not correct," she said. The ordinance neither targeted any particular religion or community nor interfered with the individual freedom to "voluntary conversion". Ms. Jayalalithaa also criticised the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, for her alleged "intransigence, obduracy and obstinacy" in not letting a government to be formed in Jammu and Kashmir. Disagreeing with a view that the Congress' performance in Jammu and Kashmir vindicated Ms. Gandhi's leadership despite her Italian origins, Ms. Jayalalithaa said: "I think it is a disgrace and slur on democracy that the Congress has not allowed government-formation because it wants the Chief Ministership. The party is in power in 14 States, why can't it let go of one State?" It was the singular achievement of the nation that a free and fair election had been held in Jammu and Kashmir and the people had participated in the democratic exercise braving threats of terrorist attacks. But, Ms. Gandhi's "obduracy" was a throwback to 1999 when she forced another general election on the nation without allowing an alternative government to be formed after the fall of the Vajpayee regime, Ms. Jayalalithaa claimed.
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