<p class="title">Makkal Neethi Mayyam president Kamal Haasan today accused the Tamil Nadu government of being "subservient" to the Centre rather than upholding the state's rights on the Cauvery issue.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The day-long fast observed by the AIADMK yesterday urging the Centre to immediately constitute the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) "was farcical", Haasan told reporters here.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Later, in a statement, he alleged that the state government was being "subservient" to the Centre.</p>.<p class="bodytext">While it was the Centre's responsibility to constitute the CMB, the state government "cannot hallucinate that it has fulfilled its duty towards the people who elected them by just filing a contempt petition after the deadline or by holding a farcical one-day hunger strike", he said in the statement.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"This TN government is functioning like a subservient government to the Centre rather than upholding the state's rights, which is the essence of India's federalism," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Haasan told the reporters that in 2016 when the Supreme Court wanted the Centre to constitute the CMB, the government came up with "lame excuses" and technicalities "to delay it".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The same act is being replayed," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami and his party men observed a day-long fast in Chennai yesterday, "condemning the Centre" for not setting up the CMB in compliance with the Supreme Court order.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ministers and senior leaders led the hunger strike in various districts.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In its February 16 judgement, the apex court had raised the 270 tmcft share of Karnataka by 14.75 tmcft and reduced Tamil Nadu's share of Cauvery water.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It gave six weeks to the Centre to formulate a scheme to ensure compliance of its judgement, which modified the Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal award.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Tamil Nadu has been urging the Centre to set up the CWMB and CWRC to ensure it received its due share of water from the inter-state river.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The six-week period ended on March 29. </p>
<p class="title">Makkal Neethi Mayyam president Kamal Haasan today accused the Tamil Nadu government of being "subservient" to the Centre rather than upholding the state's rights on the Cauvery issue.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The day-long fast observed by the AIADMK yesterday urging the Centre to immediately constitute the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) "was farcical", Haasan told reporters here.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Later, in a statement, he alleged that the state government was being "subservient" to the Centre.</p>.<p class="bodytext">While it was the Centre's responsibility to constitute the CMB, the state government "cannot hallucinate that it has fulfilled its duty towards the people who elected them by just filing a contempt petition after the deadline or by holding a farcical one-day hunger strike", he said in the statement.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"This TN government is functioning like a subservient government to the Centre rather than upholding the state's rights, which is the essence of India's federalism," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Haasan told the reporters that in 2016 when the Supreme Court wanted the Centre to constitute the CMB, the government came up with "lame excuses" and technicalities "to delay it".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The same act is being replayed," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami and his party men observed a day-long fast in Chennai yesterday, "condemning the Centre" for not setting up the CMB in compliance with the Supreme Court order.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ministers and senior leaders led the hunger strike in various districts.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In its February 16 judgement, the apex court had raised the 270 tmcft share of Karnataka by 14.75 tmcft and reduced Tamil Nadu's share of Cauvery water.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It gave six weeks to the Centre to formulate a scheme to ensure compliance of its judgement, which modified the Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal award.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Tamil Nadu has been urging the Centre to set up the CWMB and CWRC to ensure it received its due share of water from the inter-state river.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The six-week period ended on March 29. </p>