Post-Cauvery Riots, Bangalore Returning to Normalcy, Schools Still Closed

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said he would meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and request him to call a meeting of the Chief Ministers of both states to resolve the issue.

Security has been beefed up for business establishments owned by Kannadigas and also outside the homes of noted Kannada personalities in Tamil Nadu, police said on Monday. Violence is not a solution to any problem. “In a democracy, solutions are found through restraint and mutual dialogue”, he said.

Modi urged people to give priority to restraint, harmony, and stay away from violence, destruction and arson.

Men make their way past a burning lorry in Bengaluru, which was set on fire by protesters after India’s Supreme Court ordered Karnataka state to release 12,000 cubic feet of water per second every day from the Cauvery river to neighbouring Tamil Nadu, India, on September 12, 2016.

Several Malaysian families now in Bangalore, India on vacation and business trips are stuck in their hotels after a curfew was imposed following riots in the city due to water disputes between two states there.

Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah vowed to protect the thousands of Tamils living in the state after mobs targeted dozens of vehicles with Tamil licence plates.

With prohibitory orders already in place and curfew imposed in 15 police station limits, the Bangalore city wore a deserted look.

The apex court on Monday had delivered the verdict on Karnataka’s plea to reduce the amount of water to be released from the Cauvery river to Tamil Nadu.

The whole nation was shocked with violence that erupted in Bengaluru, over the issue of Cauvery water release to Tamil Nadu.

According to reports, even a person died in police firing in Bengaluru during protests.

On Monday morning, the Woodlands hotel in Chennai was attacked allegedly by a fringe Tamil group, who hurled petrol bombs, damaging glass panes and windows.

Twenty-eight people were killed in 1991 when hundreds of families of Tamil origin were forced to flee Karnataka in fear after a tribunal asked Karnataka to release the Cauvery’s waters to Tamil Nadu. The highways connecting the two states have been blocked with several vehicles, which bear the registration numbers of Tamil Nadu, were torched.

He appealed to the media to cooperate with the police in maintaining law and order.

On Sunday, he posted a message to his Facebook page asking the people of both states to “remain sensible and refrain from posting things that spread hatred and violence”.