Yeddy as a friend
At a time when Tamil Nadu CM M Karunanidhi is buffeted from all sides – quite literally with 12 districts including Chennai city under sheets of water for the last 10 days – he needs all the friends he can get. Now, how much he can rely on Karnataka’s beleaguered CM B S Yeddyruppa’s statement that he is on “good terms” with him (Karunanidhi) and that the contentious Cauvery dispute will be “amicably resolved” is open to question. Yeddy dashed down here apparently for a thanksgiving audience with the Meenakshi Ammal at Madurai after surviving to fight another day. His statement can only be classed as lip service and should be treated with suspicion particularly because it was Yeddy who hyped up the Hogannekal dispute weeks before he was elected the first BJP CM of a southern state. And Hogannekal created ripples of discord between TN and Karnataka, and like the Cauvery dispute, will continue to be used by politicians to exploit emotions.