Overview
- PMK, CPM and CPI, which issued statements Monday, asked the Centre to postpone the 50th Cauvery Water Management Authority meeting set for April 29 in New Delhi.
- They argued that recent elections in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry leave officials without guidance from incoming governments.
- Officials have not announced any change to the timing or agenda of the April 29 session.
- PMK leader Anbumani Ramadoss warned that Karnataka may try to raise the Mekedatu dam for discussion and sought a firm assurance it will not be taken up.
- He said routine releases to Tamil Nadu under Cauvery Tribunal and Supreme Court orders can proceed and noted that a 2019 Mekedatu project report forwarded to the CWMA did not move forward after opposition in Tamil Nadu.