Cauvery: Speaker to org meet of K'taka, TN MPs

New Delhi, Mar 1: Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee will meet MPs from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to discuss ways to allow a ''structured debate'' on the final order of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT).

The Speaker conveyed this information to Karnataka MPs, who met him to urge him to allow a discussion on the final award of the CWDT to highlight the ''injustices'' caused to the state under rule 193 of Parliamentary Procedures Act.

The Speaker informed the MPs about his talks with Tamil Nadu MPs also and said a meeting between both sides would help evolve a process of allowing a discussion on the contentious issue which touches emotional chords of people in both states.

The MPs delegation comprised former Union Minister Ananth Kumar, Mr P C Gaddi Gowdar, and other MPs from BJP, Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) parties.

UNI

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