Kannada outfits, farmers stage demonstration near KRS Dam

Kannada outfits and farmers demonstrated near KRS Dam in Mandya district against CWMA's direction to release water to Tamil Nadu.

The CWMA upheld the recommendation to release 3,500 cusecs of water daily to Tamil Nadu for 15 days, ignoring Karnataka's drought situation.

Protesters from Kannada Rakshana Vedike symbolically ate grass and rolled on the road; some carried posters with a cross mark on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay.

Karnataka Chief Minister D K Shivakumar convened an all-party meeting on August 2; police deployed around 1,500 personnel and took several protesters into preventive custody.