Chennai sources have stated that DMK leader M. Karunanidhi has currently urged Chief Minister Jayalalitha to convene an all-party meeting to discuss the Supreme Court order directing Karnataka to release Cauvery water vis-a-vis the fallout of the implementation.
Mr. Karunanidhi has said when the DMK was in power between 1996 and 2001, he has held an all-party meeting in a short span of a week after the then Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee has invited him to Delhi to discuss implementation of the interim award of the Cauvery Water Tribunal.
He has added that the AIADMK party has refused to attend the meeting since the party has no faith in democracy, tolerance, respect for the Opposition and different views and has also recalled his visit to Karnataka to meet the late Chief Minister Ramakrishna Hegde in 1983 to request him to release Cauvery water.
Earlier Former Chief Minister Ramakrishna Hegde had promised to do his best and subsequently released water, when Karunanidhi was 59 then and he did not remain indifferent to the problems of the State even though he was the Leader of the Opposition.
