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Kerala rejects TN charges
Kerala on Monday rejected the Tamil Nadu Government’s charge that it was trying “to whip up mass fear” over the issue of the 116-year-old Mullaperiyar dam. PJ Joseph, Minister for Water Resources, said that Kerala had never indulged in false propaganda over the dam issue.
Reacting to the Tamil Nadu Governor K Rosaiah’s reference against Kerala in his policy address in the Assembly in Chennai on Monday, Joseph said that his State had been stating only facts about the dam through the national media and to the empowered committee of the Supreme Court.
Opposing Rosaiah’s statement that Tamil Nadu would not surrender the right over the Mullaperiyar dam, Joseph said Kerala had no doubts over the ownership of the new dam it was planning to construct in its own territory. He said Kerala was ready to give water to Tamil Nadu even after construction of a new dam and it was also prepared to sign an agreement on this.
Joseph said Kerala expected Tamil Nadu to change its stand in the course of time. Rosaiah in his policy address said that there were “attempts on the part of Kerala to whip up mass fear and insecurity through false propaganda” and that these were the primary cause of the recent violent incidents, adding that Keralites should not succumb to such “malicious campaign”.
He also said that Tamil Nadu would not compromise on its rights and livelihood of its farmers and would defend them in all appropriate fora and courts of law. He complained that Tamil Nadu was a victim of the “persistent indifference” of the Union Government besides “false and parochial” campaigns launched with “short-sighted political interests.”
At the same time, Union Minister of State for Home Mullappally Ramachandran said that the Centre should take a position that was equally acceptable to Tamil Nadu and Kerala in the Mullaperiyar issue. “That was the position the Prime Minister had taken from the very beginning and that is the only way to solve the issue,” he said.
Kerala on Monday rejected the Tamil Nadu Government’s charge that it was trying “to whip up mass fear” over the issue of the 116-year-old Mullaperiyar dam. PJ Joseph, Minister for Water Resources, said that Kerala had never indulged in false propaganda over the dam issue.
Reacting to the Tamil Nadu Governor K Rosaiah’s reference against Kerala in his policy address in the Assembly in Chennai on Monday, Joseph said that his State had been stating only facts about the dam through the national media and to the empowered committee of the Supreme Court.
Opposing Rosaiah’s statement that Tamil Nadu would not surrender the right over the Mullaperiyar dam, Joseph said Kerala had no doubts over the ownership of the new dam it was planning to construct in its own territory. He said Kerala was ready to give water to Tamil Nadu even after construction of a new dam and it was also prepared to sign an agreement on this.
Joseph said Kerala expected Tamil Nadu to change its stand in the course of time. Rosaiah in his policy address said that there were “attempts on the part of Kerala to whip up mass fear and insecurity through false propaganda” and that these were the primary cause of the recent violent incidents, adding that Keralites should not succumb to such “malicious campaign”.
He also said that Tamil Nadu would not compromise on its rights and livelihood of its farmers and would defend them in all appropriate fora and courts of law. He complained that Tamil Nadu was a victim of the “persistent indifference” of the Union Government besides “false and parochial” campaigns launched with “short-sighted political interests.”
At the same time, Union Minister of State for Home Mullappally Ramachandran said that the Centre should take a position that was equally acceptable to Tamil Nadu and Kerala in the Mullaperiyar issue. “That was the position the Prime Minister had taken from the very beginning and that is the only way to solve the issue,” he said.
