Pro-Kannada organisations on Friday called for a statewide bandh on August 13 to protest the Cauvery Water Management Authority's (CWMA) direction to Karnataka to release 3,500 cusecs of water daily to Tamil Nadu for 15 days.
The bandh call was announced by pro-Kannada activist Vatal Nagaraj after a meeting of various pro-Kannada organisations in Bengaluru to chalk out the next phase of their agitation against the water release order.