CHENNAI: AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Tuesday announced that the party would hold agitation against the governments of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka in the delta districts on October 6. Former AIADMK ministers R Kamaraj, O S Manian, C Vijayabaskar, R B Udayakumar and S Semmalai would lead the agitation in Thiruvarur, Nagapattinam, Thanjavur, Mayiladuthurai and Cuddalore districts respectively.
In a statement, the former chief minister said the Tamil Nadu government should have realized the flows legally and exerted ‘pressure politically’ in the months of May, June, July and August. Chief minister M K Stalin, who attended the swearing-in ceremony of Congress government in Karnataka in May, should have demanded that the entitled share for the months of May and June be released by the upper riparian state, Palaniswami said.
