Bengaluru, Aug. 25 -- Farmers and pro-Kannada organisations across Mandya district on Tuesday intensified protests against the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC) recommendation to release 9,000 cusecs of Cauvery water daily to Tamil Nadu for 15 days.
Members of the Mandya Rakshana Vedike and other Kannada organisations entered the Cauvery river at Srirangapatna and staged protests, demanding that the state government stop releasing water to Tamil Nadu.
Protesters said Karnataka itself was facing water scarcity and farmers were struggling for water for irrigation and drinking purposes. They accused the government of failing to safeguard the state's interests and staged a novel protest by lying on the riverbank with wet cloth tied ar...