Senior advocates of the Karnataka High Court have come forward to lend legal assistance to the Cauvery Hitarakshana Horata Samiti which is spearheading the fight over the Cauvery water.
This assurance was given to Samiti president G Made Gowda at a meeting organised by the Advocates Association, Bangalore, to discuss the Cauvery issue here on Tuesday.
The meeting decided to form a committee comprising senior advocates B V Acharya, Udaya Holla, Ashok Harnahalli, A K Subbaiah, Dr Raviverma Kumar and president of Mandya Advocates Association Timmegowda.
This committee would meet every week and advise Made Gowda.
Gowda sought their advice to stay the Cauvery River Authority’s September 19 order to release 9,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu, and criticised Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar for failing to keep his promise of not releasing water to Tamil Nadu.
The senior advocates said the state government’s voluntary submission of releasing 10,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu was wrong.
They also disapproved of Shettar’s walk-out from the Cauvery River Authority meeting.
“Instead, he should have convinced Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about the state’s inability to release water,” Samiti members added.
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