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Krishna welcomed by light
showers in Mandya district

Karnataka Chief Minister S M Krishna's padayatra was on Thursday welcomed into Mandya district by light showers raising hopes of an end to the standoff with Tamil Nadu over the release of Cauvery waters.

"I trust the state will be blessed with more rains in the days to come so our crops and that of Tamil Nadu's will be saved," the chief minister prayed on the fourth day of the yatra.

Heavy rains in Kodagu and Mysore districts, the main catchment areas of the Cauvery river, have raised the water level in the Krishna Raja Sagar dam in Mysore district to 96 feet.

The chief minister resumed his padayatra from Channapatna on Thursday morning and covered twenty kilometers to reached Maddur, a block headquarters in Mandya district.

Congress supporters extended a grand welcome when the procession entered Mandya district.

Deviating from his earlier plan to enter Mandya district in an open jeep, Krishna continued his yatra on foot.

The CM will walk another fifteen kilometers on Friday and pitch camp ten kilometers away from Mandya city.

Krishna is slated to enter Mandya on Saturday morning and address a public rally in the afternoon.

Later, he is to visit the Krishna Raja Sagar and Kabini dams. He is also expected to meet the family of Guruswamy, a farmer who committed suicide protesting against release of Cauvery waters from the Kabini reservoir to Tamil Nadu.

Meanwhile, former prime minister H D Deve Gowda has kicked off his Kaveri Jana Jagruti Abiyana from Talakaveri, where the river Cauvery originates, after addressing a public rally in Bagamandala, a block headquarters in Kodagu district.

His Janata Dal (Secular) is distributing handbills with fourteen questions for the chief minister.

The questions concentrate on the alleged mismanagement of the Cauvery issue by the Karnataka government. The JD(S) plans to raise the issue in all blocks falling in the Cauvery river basin districts within one month.

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