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Daijiworld Media Network

Bengaluru, Jul 14: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Deputy Chief Minister and Water Resources Minister D K Shivakumar and other ministers attended a meeting of all party leaders in the conference hall of Vidhana Soudha on Sunday in the backdrop of the Cauvery River Water Dispute Monitoring Committee’s direction to the State Government to ensure release of 1 tmcft of water daily till July 31 to Tamil Nadu at the Biligondlu point.

BJP Opposition leader R Ashok, leaders of other parties as well as ministers and senior officials attended the meeting and endorsed the Congress government’s position of asking the Cauvery panel to reconsider its decision in view of the shortfall of rains and storage levels in all the four major reservoirs of the Cauvery basin.

MPs and legislators from the Cauvery basin areas, Chief Secretary Dr Rajneesh Goel, Chief Minister’s Additional Chief Secretary L K Atiq, Water Resources Department Additional Chief Secretary Gaurav Gupta, senior Supreme Court Advocate Mohan Katarki, State Advocate General K Shashikiran Shetty and other irrigation and legal department officials attended the meeting.