CM should have gone to Kerala to get water, says Alagiri

Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami should have met his Kerala counterpart Pinarayi Vijayan and sought water, instead of saying that he will write to him, Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) president K.S. Alagiri said on Friday.
“It is a crime to write a letter and ask for water at this stage. He should have gone to Kerala and got that 20 lakh litres of water offered by our neighbour,” he contended.
Addressing reporters on Friday, Mr Alagiri said this showed the incompetence of the Tamil Nadu government. “We have not seen such a drought in the last 100 years,” he said and added that the government had failed to desilt lakes and ponds in the State.
“The government should have desilted the 41,000 lakes in the State. Even if they had desilted by one metre, there would not have been any crisis. But even now, no action is being taken to desilt the lakes. This government is not worried about the people of the State,” Mr Alagiri said.

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