The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Cauvery: all parties appeal for peace

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Karnataka

Karnataka - Bangalore

Cauvery: all parties appeal for peace

Special Correspondent

PREPARING FOR THE VERDICT: Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy discussing a point with Home Minister M.P. Prakash at the all-party meeting in connection with the Cauvery water dispute verdict expected on Monday, in Bangalore on Friday. Minister for Water Resources K.S. Eshwarappa (left) and Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Assembly N. Dharam Singh are with them. — Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy

BANGALORE: With the Cauvery River Water Disputes Tribunal set to pronounce its final award on Monday, the all-party meeting held in Bangalore on Friday unanimously resolved to maintain peace in the State.

According to sources, the State Government has decided to take all measures possible to maintain law and order and to prevent a repeat of the 1992 events when violence had broke out in the aftermath of the pronouncement of the interim report.

In this regard, the Government had requested Kerala and Andhra Pradesh to depute police forces from their States to Karnataka. Senior police officers have reportedly reviewed the law and order situation in the sensitive areas of the Cauvery Basin as well as Bangalore.

It was decided at the all-party meeting, presided by the Chief Minister, to desist from pressing the panic button by presuming that the final award on river water sharing would go against the State.

Briefing presspersons after the 30-minute meeting, the Chief Minister said the leaders of all the parties had decided to meet again either on the day of pronouncement of the final award or on the next day to together analyse the award with the help of experts.

The meeting appealed to the people to extend their co-operation in maintaining peace.

Several leaders were learnt to have argued that there was no need for holding the all-party meeting at this juncture as the final verdict was yet to be issued.

Sources said that such a meeting was held on the advice of the counsel Fali Nariman.

The former Irrigation Minister H.N. Nanje Gowda and Mandya Raitha Hitarakshana Samithi leader G. Made Gowda did not attend the meeting.

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