more-inA day after BJP State President Tamilisai Soundararajan admitted that her party delayed taking a decision on the Cauvery water sharing issue due to the Assembly elections in Karnataka, Union Minister Pon Radhakrishnan on Saturday said the “new BJP government in Karnataka” would solve the crisis. “After the BJP forms the government, we will meet the Karnataka Chief Minister within a month and discuss the Cauvery issue. The DMK and the Congress, despite having been in power for 10 years, did not solve this issue. Because we anticipated the Karnataka elections. Their [the BJP’s] intentions stand exposed, now that they have admitted that they postponed a decision [on the Cauvery issue] due to electoral considerations.

Source: The Hindu May 12, 2018 18:00 UTC