Not polls, naming of members delaying CMB, says H Raja

The board should have nine members, of which five would be from the Union Water Ministry and one each from the four water riparian states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Puducherry. 

“Still Kerala and Karnataka have not nominated their members. Hence the Centre has sought two more weeks to form the CMB. Soon, Tamil Nadu will get justice and 50 years of betrayal by Dravidian parties will be defeated,” he said. The BJP leader questioned, why DMK leader Stalin who announced to gherao DGP office over gutkha scam, didn’t protest against sand thefts. 

Terming such protests as mere drama, Raja said that DMK is demonstrating only to hide its own wrong doings. Condemning increasing incidents of violence in the state, Raja said the police have failed to make arrests in the case of hurling petrol bombs on the house of BJP district president CR Nandakumar. Even police are attacked during protests against IPL in Chennai, he said.