"Since the Cauvery water sharing issue still continues between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka despite the Tribunal verdict and considering the delay in setting up of the Board,the Chief Minister should take an all party delegation to Delhi and pressurise the Centre to constitute the Board," PMK president G K Mani told reporters here.
Setting up of the Board would ensure proper release of water from Cauvery to the Mettur dam, which had not been opened this year on the normal date of June 12 for irrigation.
Referring to the June 27 bypoll to R K Nagar constituency in North Chennai, from where Chief Minister Jayalalithaa is contesting, he said PMK had not fielded any candidate as the party's declared policy was not to contest it.They would also not support any candidate there, he said.
About 10 lakh people from Coimbatore, Tirupur, Namakkal, Erode, Karur and Nilgiris districts are expected to attend the conference, which would discuss problems being faced by the region, particularly textile industries, power and also the long pending Avanashi-Athikadavu water scheme, he said.