PTI, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI: DMK Working President M K Stalin today began a mega rally over the Cauvery issue, that will cover the delta regions of Tamil Nadu, seeking immediate setting up of a management board to ensure release of water for farmers.
Days after holding a state-wide shutdown steered by his party on the river water issue, Stalin began his rally from the dry river banks of river Cauvery at suburban Mukkombu here, in which tens of hundreds of cadres of DMK and other opposition parties participated. State secretaries of the CPI(M) and CPI, K Balakrishnan and R Mutharasan respectively and VCK chief Thol Thirumavalavan, MMK leader M H Jawahirullah were among those who accompanied Stalin in his Cauvery yatra.
The DMK working chief lambasted the AIADMK regime for allegedly not taking action on the Cauvery issue and recalled his party-led protests and a shutdown on April 5 to bring pressure on the Centre over the matter. Stalin said the present rally now was in continuation of such programmes on the Cauvery issue. “This rally is not for political reasons. We have to get our rights (on Cauvery) and you (opposition leaders) have understood this,” Stalin, who successfully brought the opposition together on the issue against the central and state governments, said.
