Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said he would write to his Tamil Nadu counterpart Jayalalithaa to help cooperate in maintaining cordiality between the states, which are now locked in a bitter row over release of Cauvery water. However, violent protests continue in other parts of the city.
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It was rumoured that Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), wherein prohibitory orders had been imposed, which the state police later denied.
He also informed that 10 companies of CRPF and the Rapid Action Force (RAF) have been sent.
The CM and the Home Minister have appealed for calm.
Wide protests began last week after the Supreme Court asked the Karnataka government to release 15,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu daily from river Cauvery.
The sharing of waters of the Cauvery river has been the source of a serious conflict between the Indian states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu which recently resurfaced when Supreme court ordered Karnataka government to release 15,000 cusecs of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu for 10 days on September 7. Bus services (Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation) from Bengaluru to Tamil Nadu have been temporarily suspended from the city.
During the hearing, the bench noted the stiff claim and counter-claims of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, and said that it would apply the concept of fair compensation in the matter and fixed it for further hearing on 20 September.
In 1991, during Bangarappa’s tenure as chief minister, violence against Tamil had taken place in Bengaluru in which 18 people had died and hundreds fled.
A Mandya report said miscreants attacked six shops in Pandavapura town, while a truck and a vehicle was set alight in Mysuru.
A group of armed protesters threw a petrol bomb at a hotel owned by a person from Karnataka in Chennai’s Mylapore area early on Monday.
At Rameswaram, seven tourist vehicles bearing Karnataka registration that were parked at a temple were damaged when agitated members of various outfits including Naam Tamizhar Katchi allegedly indulged in vandalism.
“It is clear as noon day that Karnataka, as a good gesture, had offered 0.86 TMC, that is, 10000 cusecs of water per day and out of the said water, Tamil Nadu was required to release water proportionally to the Union Territory of Puducherry”.
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Vehicular traffic on the busy 150 km Bengaluru-Mysuru state highway came to a standstill as hundreds of protestors staged demonstrations at Ramanagaram, Kengeri, Mandya and Srirangapatna against the apex court’s latest order.
