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Cauvery row: Karnataka deputy CM hits back at CongressPublished: Sunday, Oct 14, 2012, 18:24 IST
Place: Bangalore | Agency: PTI Hitting back at Congress for attacking the government over Cauvery issue, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister KS Eshwarappa on Sunday accused it of politicising the matter and adopting double standards.
Defending the release of water to Tamil Nadu from September 12 to 19 as a goodwill gesture, he said the decision was taken after legal opinion.
He charged the Congress with politicising the issue by first welcoming the decision of Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar to release 9,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu.
"The Congress also supported Shettar over his walkout during the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) meeting, but now it is contending that he should have sat through the meeting. The Congress is resorting to double standards," Eshwarappa said.
Senior Congress leaders on Sunday had slammed the BJP Government for 'committing' a series of lapses in presenting the state's case before the Supreme Court and the Cauvery tribunal and trying to cover up its mistakes by blaming the Prime Minister, who heads the CRA.
If the Congress continued to play such "dirty politics", people of the state would teach a lesson to it, he said.
He also criticised the Prime Minister for not meeting Karnataka delegation.
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A truck struggles to navigate the national highway 31, in Kamrup rural district of Assam. Photo: Ritu Raj KonwarLife in the time of deluge
Sep 25, 2012
As Assam reels under a third wave of floods, our photographer Ritu Raj Konwar travels to the affected areas to record nature's fury and the subsequent humanitarian crisis.
A woman looks for her belongings at a relief camp in Chandrapur on the outskirts of Guwahati.
A man works on a tent at a relief camp in flood-affected Morigaon district of Assam.
A girl wades through flood waters in Morigaon.
Villagers store bags of paddy on the road after flood waters submerged their village in Morigaon.
A man works on a tent in front of submerged houses in Morigaon.
A man collects dry straw for his cattle in flood-hit Morigaon.
A woman rows her family to safety in Morigaon.
Marooned villagers in flood-affected Bhoyra village in Kamrup Rural district of Assam.
A man looks for his belongings in his living room inundated with flood waters in Lasibishnupur village in Kamrup Rural district.
A family tries to remove flood waters from their living room in Lasibishnupur village in Kamrup Rural district.
A family wades through flood waters to a safer destination in Lasibishnupur village in Kamrup Rural district.