Holding an official meeting on the Cauvery row at a hospital in Chennai where she is being treated, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Tuesday deputed a cabinet colleague to attend a meeting with her Karnataka counterpart and the Centre as suggested by the Supreme Court on the issue. She discussed in detail the issues to be taken up by Tamil Nadu at the meeting and also "dictated" her speech which will be read out there by Rao, it said. The chief minister was also apprised of the applications filed by Tamil Nadu and Karnataka with reference to the apex court's earlier orders this month on water release. Earlier in the day, the apex court directed Karnataka to discharge 6,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu till Friday inspite of Karnataka Assembly resolution expressing the state's inability to release water. The court also called for a political solution to the impasse by convening a meeting of chief ministers of the two states and the Centre.

Source: dna September 27, 2016 16:25 UTC