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more-inLeaders of the ruling Congress, its ally DMK, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), Left parties and other like-minded parties and thousands of cadre organised a human chain agitation on Monday to press the Narendra Modi-led BJP government at the Centre to constitute the Cauvery Management Board and the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee. Mr.
Narayanasamy hoped that the sustained agitation including the human chain protest would bear fruit and the CMB and the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee would come into existence at the earliest. Mr.
Narayanasamy who participated in the human chain agitation on Anna Salai urged the Centre to expedite the formation of the Cauvery Management Board and Cauvery Water Regulation Committee as directed by the Supreme Court. As far as Puducherry is concerned, Karaikal region, an enclave of the Union Territory is entitled to 7 tmc feet of Cauvery water from Tamil Nadu,” he said. Chief Minister V.
Narayanasamy, who gave the call for the human chain, visited the starting point at Anna square and walked till Mahatma Gandhi Road and Mission Street..