Cauvery issue: Christian priests in Karnataka join protests (My opinion: Very Childish Christian Perception... Hence a foolish act...)
Priests of St Philomena’s Church participated in a protest march in Mysore.
Priests of St Philomena’s Church participated in a protest march in Mysore Oct 7.
The priests of a church in Mandya, the epicentre of the protests, also hit the streets.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has deferred the Karnataka government’s plea over the issue of sharing the water of Cauvery river with Tamil Nadu.
The apex court decided to review the matter on Oct. 12.
Karnataka, in the petition, has sought a stay on the Cauvery order which directs it to release 9,000 cusecs of water to its neighbour state.
The deferment came even as member parliaments (MPs) of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from Karnataka met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding a withdrawal of his order on water sharing with Tamil Nadu.
The delegation comprising 16 BJP MPs from Karnataka met Singh at his office in New Delhi to inform him that the water level in the state's reservoirs was decreasing while the requirements have gone up.
Talking to reporters after the meeting, party MP Ananth Kumar said, "Karnataka requires 30 tmc ft of drinking water for Bangalore, Mysore and other cities. We require more than 120 tmcft of water for the standing crop and drinking water in Cauvery Basin area."
Meanwhile, Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar also met Foreign Minister S. M. Krishna requesting him to ask the prime minister to change his order.
Intense protests over release of water to Tamil Nadu have continued to sweep Cauvery river basin areas for over eight days.
The agitators have been on hunger-strike in Mandya, the Cauvery heartland, and earlier staged a rasta-roko at Maddur-Gejjalagere, disrupting traffic on the Bangalore-Mysore highway.
Processions were taken out in Mysore as well.
Agitated farmers even demonstrated at several places in Mandya and Mysore districts, raising slogans against the Central and Tamil Nadu governments.
Source: IBNLive/IBNLive
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