Bengaluru: Even as Union Minister for Water Resources Nitin Gadkari was non-committal on a possible time frame for the constitution of the Cauvery Management Board, as mandated by the Supreme Court, the Centre has decided to elicit opinions on the constitution of the Board from Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry, the States involved in the Cauvery dispute.
Realising that any hasty decision on constitution of the Cauvery Management Board will hurt the prospects of BJP in a poll-bound Karnataka, the Centre will adopt a softer approach and tackle the issue tactically and as a first step, it is collecting views from all the States.
