PM Narendra Modi comes calling, but all-party Cauvery meet with him unlikely today
By Express News Service | Published: 24th February 2018 03:13 AM |
Last Updated: 24th February 2018 03:13 AM | A+A A- |
Prime Minister Narendra Modi| PTI
CHENNAI: The formation of the Cauvery Water Management Board as well as the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee by the Centre to ensure release of water to Tamil Nadu within the six-week time-frame set by the Supreme Court in its February 16 verdict is unlikely to figure during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day visit to Chennai and Puducherry from Saturday.
An all-party delegation, led by Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami, will meet the prime minister to discuss the Cauvery issue only after the PMO fixes a date. Sources said the all-party delegation would go to Delhi to meet Modi and submit a memorandum on its demands.The leaders of many farmers’ associations were away from Chennai on Friday and a couple of others said they did not receive any information about meeting the PM in the city on Saturday.
Modi will be in the city to launch the Amma two-wheeler scheme for working women at 50 per cent subsidy, at a grand function to be held at Kalaivanar Arangam at 6 pm to mark the 70th birth anniversary of late chief minister J Jayalalithaa.
In the first phase, 1,000 two-wheelers would be provided to working women and of these, a few would receive keys from the PM.He is also scheduled to commence a scheme for massive planting of saplings on the occasion.
Jaya statue to be unveiled
As part of the celebrations to mark Jayalalithaa’s birth anniversary, CM Edappadi K Palaniswami and Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam will unveil a statue of the late leader at the AIADMK headquarters and launch the party mouthpiece ‘Namadhu Amma’
