Tamil Nadu’s Water Resources Minister and senior DMK leader, S. Durai Murugan, has restated his state’s opposition to Karnataka’s plans to construct a dam at Mekedatu across the Cauvery river. Karnataka’s Deputy Chief Minister, D.K. Shivakumar, had recently announced that the state was keen to build the dam and had allocated INR 1,000 crore ($140 million) towards the project. Murugan has expressed surprise that officials may not have given Shivakumar complete information on the proposal, and said that Tamil Nadu will oppose the proposal at all levels. He went on to say that he expects to meet Shivakumar in order to further discuss the issue of the Mekedatu dam. In 2017, protesters in Tamil Nadu burned effigies of both Shivakumar and Karnataka’s Chief Minister at the time, Siddaramaiah, following their construction of Padyatra, a journey on foot, to help build support for the proposed dam.
Tamil Nadu opposes Karnataka’s dam proposal on Cauvery
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