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Jaya indisposed, will not attend CRA meet

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa will not be attending the emergency meeting of the Cauvery River Authority in New Delhi on Sunday evening citing.

In a letter to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who is also the chairman of the Authority, Jayalalithaa cited health reasons for her decision.

State Finance Minister C Ponnaiyan will be attending the meeting on her behalf. He will be accompanied by state Chief Secretary V Sugavaneswar and PWD Secretary Kuttralingam both of who had participated in the meeting of the Cauvery Monitoring Committee held in the capital on Saturday.

In a statement in Chennai, the state government pointed out that the CRA meeting has been called with less than 24 hours' notice, which made it difficult even for PWD Minister O Panneerselvam to represent the state as he was away in his native Theni district.

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