Centre will help solve Mullaperiyar Dam issue: Madhav

His remarks assume significance in wake of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s stated position that a new dam in the downstream the more than a century-old existing structure could be achieved only with the support of the Tamil Nadu and the Union governments.

“Mullaperiyar has been an issue that has been there simmering between two states for a very long time. Our government...will certainly do everything possible for both these sides to come to an amicable understanding on this issue,” Ram Madhav, flanked by Union ministers Suresh Prabhu and Sanjiv Kumar Balyan, said in a press conference here. He said BJP wanted to see that the issue between the two neighbouring states was settled amicably.

“We are in favour of finding an amicable solution for this Mullaperiyar dam issue between the two states,” he said, when asked whether the party-led Union government would step in to find a solution to the problem.