Sonia got Tamil Nadu CM to defer project: Moily

Former Karnataka Chief Minister Veerappa Moily has attributed Sonia Gandhi’s intervention as the key to the current truce over a Tamil Nadu water project...

Former Karnataka Chief Minister Veerappa Moily has attributed Sonia Gandhi’s intervention as the key to the current truce over a Tamil Nadu water project in the disputed Hogenakkal area.

“Congress president Sonia Gandhi spoke to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi and requested him to defer the project,” Moily, the head of the Congress media department, said on Tuesday.

Earlier, following the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister’s decision to put the project on hold, amid tensions between the two states, chairman of the Congress election coordination committee and another former Chief Minister, S M Krishna, had stated that Karunanidhi had responded to his request to rethink the Hogenakkal project.

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The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister has, however, stated that the Hogenakkal project has been deferred till an elected Government is in place in Karnataka — in the interest of the people of the two states and not due to any pressure from its ally in the UPA Government.

The Congress media department head, seen as being among the several aspirants for the CM’s post in the event of a Congress victory, had said on Monday that he would not be contesting the coming Assembly polls.

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