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Thiruvananthapuram , Jan. 5

The Kerala Government has asked the Tamil Nadu Government to clarify the reasons for the latter's unilateral decision to not have any discussions on the Mullaperiyar issue.

The Water Resources Minister, Mr N.K. Premachandran, said here on Friday that Tamil Nadu had said after the meeting in Delhi on December 12 that discussions would continue on the issue. It being so, it should now reveal the reasons that prompted its Minister for Public Works, Mr Durai Murugan, to announce that there would not be any more discussions.

He said that Tamil Nadu might be conscious that its arguments for raising the water level at the 111-year-old dam were weak and not based on facts. Also, Tamil Nadu might have realised the futility of objecting to Kerala's justifiable demand for constructing a new dam in place of the old one that is posing serious threat to human life.

`IN BAD SHAPE'

Mr Premachandran noted that the breach in the cement plaster strengthened Kerala's stand about the poor condition of the dam. Tamil Nadu also knew that this was not the first time that such a thing had happened.

He charged that Tamil Nadu did not complain to the Kerala police or the Government about the incident and instead approached the Centre for deploying central forces at the dam site. This amounted to interfering in Kerala's internal affairs and did not augur well for the country's federal set-up.

The Minister made it clear that Kerala would not allow deployment of any forces other than its own at the dam site and its surrounding areas that are fully within its boundaries.

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