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CRA meet sans cordiality won't help: Elangovan

By Our Staff Reporter

Dharmapuri, Feb.10. Nothing will come out of the Cauvery River Authority meeting as long as both Tamil Nadu and Karnataka fail to discuss their water-sharing problems with each other in a cordial atmosphere, the State Congress working president, E.V.K.S Elangovan, told reporters here today.

The ``defiant posture'' the Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, adopted pushed delta farmers to severe hardship. Court verdicts will not help Tamil Nadu get water when the need of the hour was the Chief Ministers working out a distress formula based on the requirements of both the States.

At no point of time had so much animosity prevailed between the States, said Mr. Elangovan. The ``path of confrontation'' pursued by Ms. Jayalalithaa resulted in the present crisis and there remained no scope for a solution.

On riparian rights, he asked whether Tamil Nadu was supplying the prescribed quantum of Cauvery water to Karaikal in Pondicherry.

About the Sattankulam byelection, Mr. Elangovan said the result would be a reflection of the ``receding popularity'' of the Chief Minister, and her ``anti-people policies''.

To a question about Congress fairness in seeking DMK backing in spite of that party being part of the NDA at the Centre, he said the support had been sought on the consideration that the DMK was strongly opposed to the AIADMK and that it boycotted the byelection.

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