<p>The Cauvery agitation picked up in the district on Thursday with the Cauvery Monitoring Committee directing the Karnataka government to release water to Tamil Nadu again.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The activists of the Raitha Sangha blocked the Mysore-Bangalore passenger train for 15 minutes near Gejjalagere of Maddur taluk while pro-Kannada activists staged a protest in Mandya.<br /><br />Zilla Raithara Hitharakshana Samiti president G Madegowda said the CMC has only recommended further release of water which the government need not comply with.<br /><br />He said a meeting of the legislators and Lok Sabha members from the State will soon be called in Bangalore to chalk out the future course of action. <br /><br />“The matter will come up before the Supreme Court on Saturday. Our strategy will depend on the orders of the apex court that day,” Madegowda said.<br /><br />Meanwhile, prohibitory orders were clamped in a radius of one kilometre of Krishnarajasagar dam from Thursday midnight till October 12.</p>
<p>The Cauvery agitation picked up in the district on Thursday with the Cauvery Monitoring Committee directing the Karnataka government to release water to Tamil Nadu again.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The activists of the Raitha Sangha blocked the Mysore-Bangalore passenger train for 15 minutes near Gejjalagere of Maddur taluk while pro-Kannada activists staged a protest in Mandya.<br /><br />Zilla Raithara Hitharakshana Samiti president G Madegowda said the CMC has only recommended further release of water which the government need not comply with.<br /><br />He said a meeting of the legislators and Lok Sabha members from the State will soon be called in Bangalore to chalk out the future course of action. <br /><br />“The matter will come up before the Supreme Court on Saturday. Our strategy will depend on the orders of the apex court that day,” Madegowda said.<br /><br />Meanwhile, prohibitory orders were clamped in a radius of one kilometre of Krishnarajasagar dam from Thursday midnight till October 12.</p>