Tamilisai, H Raja condemn Duraimurugan, blame DMK for encroaching water bodies

Addressing reporters in Chennai, Tamilisai said, “DMK is practising divisive politics by developing enmity between people of two districts. Water from Jolarpet is transported to Chennai without affecting the people of the district and Duraimurugan is doing politics during a water crisis.”

Recently, Duraimurugan, in a protest, said that only now Jolarpet is receiving water through Cauvery Combined Water Scheme and earlier it was supplied for six days a week, but now it has been reduced to two days per week. Taking water from Jolarpet will result in severe water scarcity in Vellore district which is already reeling under a drought and so water should not be supplied to Chennai, said Duraimurugan. The comments of Duraimurugan created various controversies as Ministers too condemned the statement of the DMK leader. BJP leaders too joined in the condemnation of his statement.

BJP National Secretary H Raja while addressing reporters in Madurai, after attending a marriage function, said, “DMK has shown its ugly face in the water crisis issue. It was startling to know such a strange behaviour from the DMK treasurer.”

He also questioned what would happen to Duraimurugan if people in Chennai raised objections to his stay in Chennai and want him to move out to Jolarpet, he asked.  The Centre would stand with the state government to offset the water crisis, said Raja.

He further criticised the DMK by saying that it was because of DMK that the state is facing water crisis. “Water bodies and portions of poromboke lands were encroached by the DMK men for personal gains. It was former chief minister and DMK president M Karunanidhi, who left the Cauvery river dry,” added Raja.

Several colleges, which turn out to be commercial establishments, were built on water bodies. Even though it rained sufficiently, how could water bodies, which mostly remain encroached upon, hold rainwater, questioned Raja.