Karnataka alleges that these agreements have been unfairly made and demanded a review. Tamil Nadu says it has developed 3,000,000acres of land and any change would destroy the lives of millions of farmers History of the dispute It has been on since 1807 but somehow the British mediated and silenced it. However it resurfaced some years later Post independence developments 1970’s 1980’s A series of discussions resulted in no new developments as either state maintained a stalemate. 1990’s A new era as seeing the bilateral talks didn’t yield results the Union Government set up a 3 member tribunal 1995-96 2002 Demonstrations The flare up had by now, well and truly taken an ugly turn and there were accusations and counter accusations being thrown all around in both states. The opposition parties in Tamil Nadu too had jumped into the fray and at the same time joining Jayalalitha in stinging rebukes of both the Centre and the CRA. It became worse as leaders fought for political brownie points. Karnataka once again refused to obey the orders of SC. Tamil Nadu slapped another contempt petition on Karnataka and soon the issue degenerated into a 'free for all' with all and sundry from both states joining the protests. Soon, film actors and various other cross sections of society from both states were on the streets. The belligerence soon hit a crescendo and even as some groups in Tamil Nadu called for a stoppage of power from the Neyveli Power station to Karnataka as a tit-for-tat measure, a Pan-Tamil militant outfit went ahead and blasted a major power transformer supplying power to the neighbouring states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.[16] The last four years haven't seen any major flare up in the dispute even though the summer of 2003 saw a dry spell in both states. The monsoons in 2004, 2005 and 2006 were quite copious and this helped a great deal in keeping the tempers calm. While the last 3 or 4 years have been relatively quiet as far as jingoistic...