Cauvery water dispute turns ugly...

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[h=1]Cauvery water dispute in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka: Like Rajinikanth, actors too feel the heat[/h]
On Friday, as Karnataka logs out for a state-wide bandh over the Cauvery issue, the 52 Tamil satellite channels will be off air in Kannadiga land. Like it was in 2008, when cable TV operators pulled the plug on Tamil entertainment networks for days at end.
Tamil movies have already been removed from theatres in cities like Bengaluru and on Thursday, Tamil actor Vikram'sIru Mugan did not release across the Cauvery. Films have always suffered collateral damage whenever Karnataka and Tamil Nadu have gone to war over Cauvery.
Look at the irony of it. Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa was born in Mandya district, the ground zero of the anti-Tamil Nadu protests in the Cauvery delta in south Karnataka. Her films with MGR were well received in Karnataka as well. Yet the two states find it politically convenient not to talk to each other and pit Kannadigas and Tamilians in eyeball to eyeball confrontation over river water sharing.

She said in Kannada: "Cauvery is ours, we will not let it go. Why should we give water when we don't have any? Come out for the struggle, stand with the farmers. I am supporting the farmers, you too should.''
Whatever be the circumstances the message was recorded under, it was irresponsible on Ragini's part to pander to her constituency in Karnataka at the cost of public order.
In the last three days, farmers have raised slogans against two actors-turned-politicians from Mandya, Ambareesh and Ramya. They burnt posters of Sudeep-starrer Kotigobba 2. It had the desired effect. Sudeep tweeted his support to the Karnataka stand on Cauvery.
Superstar Rajinikanth for Bengalureans is Namma Rajini (Our Rajini), having spent his formative years working as a bus conductor in the city, before he made it big in the Tamil film industry. Yet when Cauvery witnesses fireworks, he has to make a choice — this side or that side.
Siddaramaiah fiddles while he watches the more militant among the farmer groups take over. The Karnataka chief minister and his irrigation minister were guilty of upping the ante, making it appear as if they won't spare a drop of water to Tamil Nadu. They failed to communicate that river water sharing is law in a federal structure. Now when 15000 cusecs of water is being released everyday after the Supreme court order, the situation at least in south Karnataka districts is volatile. Karnataka farmers are behaving as if the water is going from their bucket and that they are doing Tamil Nadu a favour, annoying farmers in the lower riparian state no end.
Into this already inflamed scenario step in Kannada actors. Under pressure from protesters that they have not publicly supported the Karnataka stand on Cauvery, actor Ragini Dwivedi put out a video message on her Twitter handle with the hashtag #FightforNammaCauvery, openly calling for defiance of the Supreme court order.She said in Kannada: "Cauvery is ours, we will not let it go. Why should we give water when we don't have any? Come out for the struggle, stand with the farmers. I am supporting the farmers, you too should.''
Whatever be the circumstances the message was recorded under, it was irresponsible on Ragini's part to pander to her constituency in Karnataka at the cost of public order.
In the last three days, farmers have raised slogans against two actors-turned-politicians from Mandya, Ambareesh and Ramya. They burnt posters of Sudeep-starrer Kotigobba 2. It had the desired effect. Sudeep tweeted his support to the Karnataka stand on Cauvery.

 

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Cauvery Row: Anger In Bengaluru, Vehicles Told Not To Go To Tamil Nadu

[iolence has broken out in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu over the Cauvery water sharing dispute.



BENGALURU: In the Cauvery water dispute, massive protests erupted in Karnataka on Monday, especially on the streets of Bengaluru and Mysuru, as a modified Supreme Court order meant the state has to release more water to neighbour Tamil Nadu.

Here are 10 developments in the story:​

1. On Karnataka's petition, the court modified an earlier order and said the state has to release less river water to Tamil Nadu but for five more days. Karnataka, which will end up giving more water after the modified order, urged the court to reconsider but its request was rejected.
2. The court also criticised protests in the past few days in Karnataka, saying "citizens cannot become a law unto themselves". But protesters In Bengaluru appeared to defy this warning as they burnt vehicles and threw stones at them today. Armed reserve police spread out across the city to check violence.
3. Karnataka has stopped buses from heading to Tamil Nadu and police jeeps were positioned along the border to warn vehicles against entering that state.
4. Most schools and colleges and some offices were closed early in Bengaluru and metro services were briefly stopped.
5. This morning, a hotel owned by a Karnataka company in Chennai was vandalized by a fringe group. The attackers broke into the New Woodlands hotel, broke glasses and window panes. They allegedly also threw a petrol bomb and left pamphlets warning of retaliation if Tamils were targeted in Karnataka. Four have been arrested; 10 people were involved in the attack, the police say.
6. Five tourist vehicles from Karnataka, including two buses, were damaged by protesters in Rameswaram in southern Tamil Nadu.
7. Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, in a letter to his Tamil Nadu counterpart Jayalalithaa, urged her government to take action against those involved in violence against Kannada speaking people. He also said the attack on a young man in Bengaluru was "blown out of proportion".
8. The man - reported to be Tamil - was attacked and humiliated in Bengaluru on Saturday by a group allegedly over his comments on social media on the Cauvery dispute. In a video of the attack that went viral, the engineering student was slapped and kicked by the men. The police suspect he was attacked after his post on Facebook mocking Kannada actors was widely circulated.
9. The protests began after Karnataka was asked last week by the Supreme Court to release 15,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu daily from the river Cauvery, which flows through both states.
10. On Monday the Supreme Court, responding to Karnataka's petition that it would not be able to release that much water, modified its order.

 

[athimber]

Quite terrifying the situation in Bangalore. All Tamil and Malayalam news channels are full of horrible stories. More than 50 buses seems to be set on fire. Asianet is repeatedly showing a bus depot where plenty of buses are burnt. This sort of violence is not acceptable whatever may be reason. This is quite atrocious.

 

[mkrishna100]

This attack on Tamils and their Property in Karanata is not a spontaneous one but a deliberate well planned one done with the blessings of the Politcal Bigwigs there . But the image is being created as though it is a spontaneous response and that they will take action on the rioters

 

[tbs]

hi

this hardship for IT COMPANIES/THEIR EMPLOYEES TOO... even america issued advisory to its citizens in benguluru....

loss for both governments....

 

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This is only the beginning or a sample... The river is the same, rains r same, terrain same and only change is what we call DEVELOPMENT & population... Right through, human settlements always revolve around rivers & perennial rivers see more settlements. But today the scene is different - last 25 years, cities/ towns starting swelling - and every slap in the street is a REAL ESTATE PROJECT... and these settlements r created way outside from water supply system... Again agriculture which r water intensive always are around such rivers - beyond river reach are crops which are rain dependent completely... Karnataka in the last 30 years created so much of canals, pipelines all over to cater to their demand (see the amount of real estate activity in bangalore city itself), where will they supply water from ? Karnataka on its own should leave enough water to drain to tamil nadu at least for the agricultural purposes... The million dollar question is : leave unlimited water, whole of kaveri belt in tamil nadu will become a REAL ESTATE nightmare like Karnataka... Secondly, water supply is a municipal service and cannot be privatised for profits... Municipality has responsibly to reach drinking water to every corner with or without payment unlike a commodity like Electricity... Its too complex & no one can control greed - and this will boil further... Supreme Court is just a panchayat - they always play to the gallery...

 

[prasad1]