State scan: Cauvery water dispute unites Dravidian parties in Tamil Nadu

The Tamil Nadu state Assembly unanimously passed a resolution for setting up of the Cauvery Manage-ment Board (CMB) and the Cauvery Water Regulatory Committee (CWRC) as ordered by the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court’s recent verdict reducing the allocation of Cauvery water for Tamil Nadu forced leaders of rival parties in the state to meet and discuss its next move in the nearly two-century-long dispute with Karnataka.   

Two major parties in Tamil Nadu — AIADMK and DMK —never shared cordial relations. The two refused to see eye-to-eye when either M Karunanidhi (of DMK) or late J Jayalalithaa (of AIADMK) was the chief minister. There was always unease and tension between the two leaders; one of them would leave the Assembly when the other entered.
 

But now the situation has changed