Jayalalithaa alleged that Kerala government was using its police, stationed at the dam site for the purpose of guarding it, to stop Tamil Nadu engineers from carrying out even
routine maintenance works on the dam and its appurtenant structures.
”This attitude of the Government of Kerala is reprehensible and needs to be set right,” she said reminding Singh of her plea made last year for deployment of the Central Industrial Security Force to safeguard the dam.
”I, therefore, request you to advise the Government of Kerala not to prevent the officials of Tamil Nadu from carrying out the essential work of closing the drilled holes on the Mullai Periyar Dam,” Jayalalithaa said in the letter, a copy of which was released to media here today.
“Further, if the Government of Kerala persists with this recalcitrant attitude and if the Government of India does not respond to my request for the deployment of the CISF, the Government of Tamil Nadu will have no option but to deploy its own Police Force to guard the Mullaiperiyar Dam in the area leased out to Tamil Nadu,” Jayalalithaa said.
