Cauvery Water Management Authority: Stalin lacks basic knowledge and his protest threat is childish, BJP leader says
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu BJP president L Murugan on Thursday criticised DMK president M K Stalin for his statement against the Centre’s move to incorporate the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) to the jal sakthi ministry.
In a statement, Murugan said BJP leaders were busy with Covid-19 relief work and they had no time nor intention to do politics over the issue.
The CWMA was constituted as an independent body under the Union ministry of water resources in 2018.
Murugan said Stalin lacked basic knowledge to understand that the Centre’s move would strengthen the authority and speed up decision making. “His (Stalin’s) argument that the Centre’s move will take away the authority’s autonomy is a sign of defeat due to the people’s support for the state and Centre’s effective Covid-19 relief measures.” Murugan said.
When the governments at the Centre and the state were fighting a pandemic, the DMK chief had called for a protest over the CWMA issue. “It is childish,” he said .
Seven such bodies such as the Krishna and Godavari River management boards had been incorporated to the jal sakthi ministry. “But none has opposed the move,” he said.
He asked why DMK had not taken any efforts to resolve the Cauvery issue when it had been part of the Centre government from 2004 to 2013.
In a statement, Murugan said BJP leaders were busy with Covid-19 relief work and they had no time nor intention to do politics over the issue.
The CWMA was constituted as an independent body under the Union ministry of water resources in 2018.
Murugan said Stalin lacked basic knowledge to understand that the Centre’s move would strengthen the authority and speed up decision making. “His (Stalin’s) argument that the Centre’s move will take away the authority’s autonomy is a sign of defeat due to the people’s support for the state and Centre’s effective Covid-19 relief measures.” Murugan said.
When the governments at the Centre and the state were fighting a pandemic, the DMK chief had called for a protest over the CWMA issue. “It is childish,” he said .
Seven such bodies such as the Krishna and Godavari River management boards had been incorporated to the jal sakthi ministry. “But none has opposed the move,” he said.
He asked why DMK had not taken any efforts to resolve the Cauvery issue when it had been part of the Centre government from 2004 to 2013.
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