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Cauvery water flows into TN;
Krishna to visit Delhi on Friday

Karnataka on Thursday released 1.25tmcft [thousand million cubic feet] of water for the second successive day to Mettur dam in Tamil Nadu, even as thousands of farmers in the old Mysore region staged protests against the state government's decision.

The Supreme Court had on Tuesday ordered Karnataka to release water to Tamil Nadu everyday till the Cauvery River Authority took a final decision on the issue.

State irrigation ministry sources told rediff.com that water had started flowing into Mettur dam, as the gates of Kabini and Krishna Raja Sagar reservoirs were lifted on Wednesday night.

In a letter to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Chief Minister S M Krishna pleaded that a meeting of the CRA should be convened immediately after the sitting of the Cauvery River Monitoring Committee on September 7.

Krishna held a series of discussions with his Cabinet colleagues, officials and legal experts to chalk out a strategy to represent the state's case at the CRA meeting.

He also called on former prime minister and Janata Dal (Secular) president H D Deve Gowda, former state chief ministers Ramakrishna Hegde, Veerappa Moily, and S Bangarappa to elicit their views.

The chief minister was likely to leave for New Delhi on Friday to apprise Karnataka members of Parliament on the stand of the state government.

Meanwhile, farmers blocked the Bangalore-Mysore highway and organised protest marches in Mysore, Mandya and Chamarajanagar districts.

Most of the towns in Mandya observed a bandh. The traffic between Mysore and Bangalore was affected due to road blockades. All colleges were also closed, as students took part in the protests.

The farmers organised a human chain at Kabini dam to oppose the release of water.

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