After a meeting with officials at the Vidhan Soudha, Karnataka Chief Minister Bommai told reporters that there will be no compromise on the Mekedatu project as the State will launch it once the Union government clears the project. "Irrespective of who were protesting in Tamil Nadu, they are doing it for political reasons," he shot back in response to a question.

Bomani added that during water shortage this project will prove beneficial to both the states. "We have already prepared a Detailed Project Report and submitted it to Jal Shakti minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat recently and I have confidence that the project report will be approved by the Union government and the project will be taken up shortly thereafter," he said.

He went on to say. “the work on the project will start and there will be no compromise on this. "If anybody is protesting, we are not concerned and we are not taking it seriously," The proposed Mekedatu (Goat's Leap) reservoir project is proposed to be built at a deep gorge at the confluence of the Cauvery river and its tributary Arkavathi, in Ramanagara district.

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