Chennai: Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan requested the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to set up the Cauvery Water Management Board quickly while advising him that the centre should dispel the impression that his government was dragging its feet due to the elections in Karnataka and “your interest in it”.

“I want this belief to be dispelled,” the actor who has campaigned for getting the Supreme Court verdict implementation done said in a video message to the Prime Minister, because “people are more important the elections as you well know”.

Mr Hassan tweeted the video message just minutes after Prime Minister Modi reached Chennai and used a chopper to reach the DefExpo which was 70 km from the state capital and later, IIT Madras campus, due to the protests that opposition parties had planned. The opposition got their message through using black balloons.

“My name is Kamal Haasan. This is an open video to my honourable Prime Minister,” Mr Haasan says in the message, drawing his attention to the “crisis” in Tamil Nadu for delaying on the part of the centre.

“You can easily deliver the justice that Tamil Nadu is seeking,” Mr Haasan, 63, who wore a black shirt as a mark of protest, said.

The public is very angry over Cauvery waters issue in Tamil Nadu after the centre kept sitting on a verdict issued by the Supreme Court earlier this year that mandated the centre to set up the authority that would ensure sharing of Cauvery waters between Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Puducherry.

Mr Haasan had earlier held politics to be responsible for the delay due to the neighbouring Karnataka is ready to vote its next government in May. Last week, according to his claim, the centre was trying to play a political game that was standing in the way of the state receiving justice.

The Supreme Court, which is as of now hearing petitions to seek implementation of its verdict, has also reprimanded the central government for coming up with excuses to put off the setting up of the authority.

“The Supreme Court has already performed its constitutional role by delivering the judgement. It is now the turn of your government to perform its constitutional duty and implement the order,” he said in the open letter.

The 765-km long river called Cauvery originates in Kodagu district in southern Karnataka and flows into Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry.

“Please do justice for Tamil Nadu and Karnataka and see that Supreme Court judgement is followed,” Mr Haasan said in the video, adding that he was also putting out an open letter in case “I have missed out any points in my anxiety to pass on this tumultuous moment in Tamil Nadu”.

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