Jayalalithaa seeks CISF cover for Mullaperiyar

Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Sunday asked the Prime Minister to order the immediate deployment of the Central Industrial Security Force ( CISF) at the Mullaperiyar dam site to avert any "man-made catastrophic consequences".


"There have been reports of vandalism by certain political parties of Kerala at the dam site. A mob of 200 people damaged the gate at the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board facility at the dam on Saturday and today certain lumpen elements marched towards the dam from Vallakadavu (Kerala) with a JCB (earth mover) and some implements, with the intention of letting out water and damaging the Dam," she said in a letter to the PM.

The dam has been under the administrative control of the state government under a 999-year lease.