Prime minister Narendra Modi Tuesday expressed pain over the developments in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu over the Cauvery water dispute and appealed for peace while underlining that violence can not provide solution to any problem.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed pain over the attacks in the two states locked in a bitter river water sharing row and appealed for calm while stressing that violence can not provide solution to any problem.
As violence spread in the southern Indian state of Karnataka over a dispute on sharing water from the Cauvery river with its neighbouring state Tamil Nadu, popular Tamil radio presenter RJ Balaji took to social media to remind people that they were “all human first”.
Security forces opened fire when a mob attempted to set fire to a vehicle killing at least one person and injured four others.
“Dear brothers and sisters, the situation that has emerged in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, as a fallout of the issue of distribution of the waters of the Cauvery River, is distressful. Breaking the law is not a viable alternative”, Mr Modi said in a series of Tweets.
Cable operators in Bangalore blocked all the 52 Tamil television channels to prevent retaliatory attacks and check emotions running high in Karnataka against Tamil Nadu for demanding the river water.
As Bengaluru witnessed widespread violence bringing it on the edge, night curfew was imposed in 16 police station limits late Monday night. He said the first order passed on September 5 itself was hard and Monday’s was “most difficult” to follow.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has made a decision to personally meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and seek his intervention in defusing the Cauvery crisis that has erupted between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
Vehicles with Tamil Nadu registration plates were attacked on Monday and protesters blocked roads by burning tyres and torching effigies of politicians. I am not saying that this is the value of his life, but this compensation is given because his family is facing hardship, Siddaramaiah said.
“This order is the most hard to follow”.
Senior advocate KTS Tulsi urged both the states to ensure safety of the people.
However, after Monday’s order we are releasing 1,68,000 cusecs of water. The official website of Bangalore city police too confirmed the news. No fresh incident has been reported since morning.
With more than 15,000 state reserve and CRPF forces deployed in Bangalore, more than 350 miscreants put behind bars, the situation is expected to be under control on Wednesday.
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State ministers held emergency meetings Tuesday after demonstrators vandalized shops and set fire to more than 100 cars, buses and trucks in Bangalore, Karnataka, after days of tension following a Supreme Court order to release water from the state’s reservoirs to neighboring state Tamil Nadu.
