New Delhi Jun 18: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Monday met AICC President Rahul Gandhi and discussed the issues relating to functioning of the JDS-Congress coalition government in the State.
Mr Kumaraswamy, who was here to participate in the Niti Aayog Council Meeting yesterday at Rashtrapathi Bhavan, had extended his stay by a day to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other Union Ministers to discuss about pending State issues.
In the morning he met Mr Gandhi at his residence and held detailed discussion relating to issues that confronted the coalition government. He had sought Mr Gandhi to speak to his party-men on these issues.
Later talking to newsmen here, Mr Kumaraswamy said Mr Gandhi also had suggested certain points for the smooth functioning of the coalition government which had been formed with the sole interest of providing a better government in the state and improve the lot of the people. He said that he had also raised issues relating to portfolio and him to discuss with the Congress leaders and find a solution. He did not elaborate on it.
Asked whether he discussed about cabinet expansion, Mr Kumaraswamy said it was purely an internal matter of the Congress.
Mr Kumaraswamy would, in the afternoon, meet Home Minister Rajnath Singh. He said it would be purely a courtesy call.
The Karnataka Chief Minister would later meet Mr Modi to discuss the Cauvery issue, especially about the functioning of the Cauvery water management board, which among other things had been mandated to meet once in ten days and decide about the quantum of water to be released from the reservoirs in the basin to Tamil Nadu.
He said that the State had not accepted this proposal as it was purely against the interest of the State.
The state, he said should have the prerogative to release water from its reservoirs and ensure injustice was not done to farmers in basin area, Mr Kumaraswamy added.
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