Chennai sources have stated that after accusing Chief Minister Jayalalitha of functioning in an autocratic manner on the Cauvery Water issue, the DMK district secretaries meeting on Sunday has demanded compensation for Tamils who suffered enormous loss in the violence in Karnataka.
The meeting was presided over by party leader M. Karunanidhi, has stated that as resolution adopted in the meeting alleged that prisoners were released to let loose violence against Tamils and damage their properties and they have damaged vehicles from Tamil Nadu and set them to fire and Tamils lost properties worth crores. The Centre and Karnataka government should get compensation for them.
The resolution has further stated that the meeting held the state government responsible for the present crisis, saying that it had failed to make preparations in advance for release of water from Mettur on June 12 for kuruvai cultivation and it did not monitor the water level at the dam and it also did nothing to keep ready the canals through which the water flows from Mettur.
Meanwhile another resolution strongly has condemned the Centre for its failure to constitute the Cauvery Management Board and Cauvery River Regulation Committee in time, saying all problems would have been smoothly resolved if these two bodies were constituted and only the Cauvery Management Board has the legal powers to direct and question the Karnataka government.
