Remove 3 Karnataka ministers from Modi Cabinet: Vaiko

Kanyakumari: The MDMK general secretary, Vaiko on Sunday demanded the removal of three Union ministers from Karnataka from the Central cabinet for participating in the all-party meting at Bengaluru in the Cauvery water dispute against Tamil Nadu. Speaking to media persons in Kanyakumari at Gandhi memorial here, Vaiko strongly came down upon the Central government for having failed in its responsibility to make Karnataka government implement the Supreme Court order in the Cauvery issue. 

The MDMK general secretary raked up the suspicion whether the Union government backed Karnataka in the issue by being silent. He demanded the removal of three Union ministers, Ananth Kumar, D.V. Sadananda Gowda and Ranesh Chandappa Jigajinagi as they participated in the all-party meeting convened by Karnataka Chief Minister on the Cauvery river water issue.

However, the Union minister of state from Tamil Nadu, Pon Radhakrishnan, who too visited the Gandhi memorial at Kanyakumari today,  said that his cabinet colleagues from Karnataka need not be removed from the Central cabinet. Pon Radhakrishnan also clarified that the Union government was not taking sides in the Cauvery issue.