Tamil Nadu – Kerala war of words on Mullaperiyar issue
The Mullaperiyar dam issue has created a serious rift between the governments of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. At the heart of the problem is the issue about raising the height of the dam from 136 ft to 141 ft. The Supreme Court of India has given the go ahead earlier this year to raise the height of the dam. But the government of Kerala has tried to hinder this move by raising the issue of the safety of the people in the adjoining area due to this increased dam height. Making matters worse, the Kerala government tried to ascertain the safety of the dam with the help of naval divers. The Tamil Nadu government has taken a strong exception to this unilateral move by the Kerala government and has threatened to boycott all talks.
Given that the Supreme Court of India has given a go ahead taking all issues into consideration, this delaying tactic by the Kerala government is frankly appalling. Frankly talks in New Delhi are going to be pointless as both Chief Ministers are going to hold to their respective positions. The only way to settle this dispute is to let the Supreme Court to decide.
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See if you think dam is safer, why don’t you allow naval divers to check the dam?..
Kerala has enough water( may be more than enough) and is ready to give also..But we are also worried about the safty… Just use the common sense and think about it. It was made of rubble and surki (some 111 years ago).Over the years, a large
quantity of lime has been leached away making the old dam structurally weak.
This is not to provoke anybody..all are facts…
and please tell/write anything after making sure that every thing is correct.
They will never use their commonsense and think on the fact twice. Let whatever happen to the 35 lakhs people, they don’t bother about it. That is what their mentality. They will always stick on their stupidities without understanding the truth. What a Selfishness !!!
They have already proved their attittude by quarelling with Karnataka on another similar issue. They need their state to be announced as a separate country….their selfish needs are going on like these…
A humble request to TN government.
Please do understand that you are playing with the lives of lakhs of innocent people in Kerala. Mind it.
Tamilnadu should appreciate the magnanimous gesture put forward by the Government of Kerala by renewing the treaty that allows Tamilnadu to use the water for power generation too. Instead, ungrateful Tamilians loves to point out this as a diplomatic blunder commited by the then officials of Kerala thereby giving Tamilnadu a stronghold over the issue of Mullaperiyar dam.
Kerala for long trusted the supreme court to come up with a favorable decision taking on account of the safety problems raised by the Kerala government. By ruling out the Kerala’s plea on decommissioning of the dam, supreme court decision proven to be a mockery of the judicial system.
Kerala must stand firm in its demands and should not forget the troubles caused to by the neighboring state and the central government which should guide them to frame a new treaty, which would resonate Kerala’s stand on the beseeching pleas for water from its ungrateful neighbouring state of Tamilnadu, once the new dam is built.
The selfish, ba*rdic politicians and corrupt bureaucrats of kerala are the reason for the current situation. Tamilnadu is definitely GREEDY for water due to their problems and do not give a damn that they are stealing or robbing or whatever to get it from others.
The problem is that the people from kerala used be well of with enough water and never cared what the ba*rdic politicians do. So now we are suffering.
What we should do is that the people should get united and realise that we will be needing water in the future and also that we can not supply water for free to others for eternity. Does Tamilnadu give free rice/vegetables to kerala in return of the free water?
I am not against giving water to TN and fully support that if they are in need they should be given. But let us make sure that we have the control and we give only after ensuring that we have satisfied the demands of ourselves.
Saftey is another important issue and we just have to take control of OUR land by force and do a controlled demolition of the dam in the summer taking necessary precautions. Once it is done, things will come our way. Till then Tamilnadu rules.
I say that going to court on these issues itself is meaningless. When it is the saftey of the peopl, a government should use force when needed. Learn from the Ba*rds of America who use force even when not at all necessary.
Keralam ennu kettalo thilakkanam chora namukku njarambukalil ( When you hear Kerala, blood should boil in our veins).
We know TN is filled with the greediest and do not have any national interest or feeling from many other issues.
Kerala politicians are timid and useless hijras. TN has always scuttled all development in kerala. remember, last transport minister didnt allow any highway in kerala, they opposed Vallarpadam, Vizinjam everything, they scuttled Nokia investment. DMK is supporting congress at center, so manmohan singh will keep quite. VS is just doing tthis tamasha, what did he do for 3 years. Kerala must build a dam and annul the old treaty.
Bloody tamilians are uncivilized scoundrels- kerala and karnataka needs to throw out all the backward dravidian tamilians from their states. Tamilnadu is anti national state, they should have no place in india. Kerala must make a new dam and not give one drop of water to tamilians. Bloody tamilians dont understand that this dam and this river in entirely in kerala territory. Karnataka should also stop all water from cauvery. Tamilians anyway bathe only once a month, why do they need so much water? Jai Hind.
One thing we Keralites dont understand is that for 60 years, at center, Tamilnadu always presented itself as the only representative from south, so anything that goes to south zone goes to Tamilnadu- look at central institutes, regional central govt offices, railway zons, US embassy, central PSUs everything went to TN. all the development funds from center goes to Tamilnadu. just look at road infrastructure in chennai, and look at kerala’s so called metro city- Cochin, it is worse than village towns like madurai or tiruppur. How is it that a state like Kerala which contributes so much forex, so much cash crops, so many highly educated people remain backward in infrastructure, a city like Cochin with so much private wealth, looks like a shanty town in terms of roads, power, urban planning?
Bangalore and Hyderabad fought for their rights so they got some share of funds in the last 10-15 years, so now both bangalore and Hyderabad are both ahead of dirty, shitty chennai. btw i love Bangalore, it is a true national city like Delhi or Bombay. But kerala politicians were always timid, backward, hijras. They have done nothing for the state in last 60 years. They cant even speak proper english or Hindi at Delhi, How can they communicate about their issues. only some people like E.K. Naynar, Karunakaran, Balakrishna Pillai and Shashi Tharoor kind of leaders have brought some respect for the state in Delhi.
let us hope one day the proud people of kerala will get their due share in our great nation- Bharat.
Jai Hind.
Go and jerk off you moron, Mallus are shittest in the world, you ppl never respect others………..and you dont bathe at all……….stinking all the time, I feel like bashing the dam now itself, all saints there RIP!!!
Jai Menon u moron
TN has more mallu scoundrels than tamils in kerala.
Bloody , tell them to leave our place first.
5 million mellu jackasses in our state.
Learn english first.
Kerala is God’s own country or devil country. I don’t know malayalee always boost themselves up. Most of the malayalees are living in other state than kerala. Let them go to kerala. They consider kerala is waste land. What they produce. Nothing I have visited many countries in abraod even in latin american countries.Far better than kerala as per nature. Though kerala is on percent of land in India. This should be kept well. Then I visit often to kerala for treatment many hotels have no proper water. Most of the water goes to sea. Then they can give to tamil nadu since TN supplies manything to kerala. One thing is best to leave them to construct a dam. No problem but malayalees should go from TN. TOO MUCH NOW AND TOO BAD FOR US.
As a malayalee who wish for an amicable settlement my views are :
We need to solve 2 issues
a)TN should get water as its southern districts agriculture depends on water from Kerala.
b)People of Kerala should be able to live peacefully without apprehension on the dam safety.
I cant find any other better solution than-
“A new dam should be built so that Tamil Nadu will continue to get water and Kerala’s saftey worries will be over.”
But i really dont understand…. Kerala gov is saying the same thing and why TN gov is not agreeing on this.
If Kerala is ready to give water to TN after the new dam is built also; then what is the problem in agreeing for a new dam..? Is it like TN gov not believe on Kerala gov words..? If that is the case TN can ask center to intervene and have an agreement signed before the dam built itself! Instead of that why TN politicians saying Kerala should not even think about a new Dam(dont even do a Survey)
The agreement is for 999 years, but it is obvious that the dam can not survive that period.Hence surely a new dam has to be built if TN need to get water.
Just think about a scenario, TN gov not agreeing for a new dam and one day the dam collapses.(I pray such a situation never happen). After such a disaster occur,does anybody think, TN can build one new dam and continue to get water…(such a situation could be so horrible..the relation btwn the 2 states could be much worst than current Indo-Pak relations) So is it foolish from the TN gov now opposing the new dam when Kerala saying it is ready to continue giving water after the new dam built?
After all why my tamil brothers are so arrogant..? just see the facts..
1)Periyar is not an inter-state river like kavery. It is completely within the territory of Kerala.
2)Kerala is giving water to TN from Periyar since the british rule without anything in return.And when it comes to Kerala people’s safety why the Tamil politicians behave this way..?
3. If you say TN provide egg,vegetables etc.., none of these things are anyway free of cost.If we dont buy TN farmers also will suffer and we had seen that on DMK’s road blockade.(I just meant to say its not a favor for Kerala people from the TN side).
4. And about malayalees in TN ..i can see a lot of tamil workers and Tamil hotels in every nook and corner of Kerala. So of course both states are dependent each other.
Arun Nair
This Tamilians DIRTY DARK IDIOTS…..WORSE THAN AFRICAN NEGROS…….
THEY UTILIZED KERALA FOR A LONG.. WE DONT HAVE PATIENCE ANYMORE… WE ARE MALAYALEE BLOODS…JAI KERALA…
JAI INDIA…
KARNATAKA… JOIN WITH US IN THIS WAR AGAINST DIRTY TAMIL (AADIVASI) IDIOTS
Mr Indian
pls read the following words
as u mention above (tamilian )(AADIVASI) IDIOTS
Indian Nobel prize Winners
1) Rabindranath Tagore 1913 literature
2) Chandrasheker Ventkata Raman 1930 physics Tamil Nadu
3) Hargobind Khorana 1968 Medicine
4) Mother Teresa 1979 Peace
5) Subramanian chandrasheskar 1983 physics Tamil Nadu
6) Amartya Sen 1998 Economics
7) Venketraman Ramakhrisanan 2009 Chemistry Tamil Nadu
Three Tamilians out of seven Indians
But No Malayalam
(100 per cent Educated peoples/Kerala State) –why???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????… ect
Is really standard education system adopt in Kerala?
I think noooooooooooooooo —- only talking
This is a real mallus (only cheating)
tamilian is the best in india and world