Even as the Tamil Nadu Assembly adopted a resolution urging the Union Government to come forward to safeguard the rights of the people of the State, various Kannada organisations gave a call for a Karnataka bandh on April 10 to protest the Hogenakkal drinking water supply project. The resolution, moved by Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi and adopted unanimously, stated that the Centre should fulfil its responsibility of protecting the sovereignty and integrity of the country. Deploring the incidents of violence in Karnataka, the resolution said that though Tamil Nadu had resolved to maintain peace and amity in relations with Karnataka, some "chauvinists' in that State had acted against the interests of the people of Tamil Nadu. In Karnataka, political opposition to the project intensified. Traffic on the Mysore-Bangalore National Highway came to a grinding halt near Maddur in the morning with activists of the Mandya district unit of the Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (KRV) stopping a bus of the Tamil Nadu State Road Transport Corporation and deflating its tyres. A meeting of writers, intellectuals, farmers' leaders, Kannada cinema persons, Kannada organisations and Dalit organisations convened by the Vedike at Bangalore decided to launch a movement to stall the construction of the project. The Vedike threatened to cut off rail and road transport between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu and close down industries and trade establishments owned by persons belonging to Tamil Nadu. It decided not to allow Tamil films to be screened across the State until the issue was sorted out. Tamil films and television programmes would go off the air from Wednesday. Karnataka Chief Secretary Sudhakar Rao, in his letter to the Union Water Resource Secretary Umesh Narayan Panjiar, contended that the Hogenakkal project was "undoubtedly' a new scheme. "Until the inter-State implications arising from the project are examined under the provisions of the Inter-State Water Disputes Act, 1956, the Government of Tamil Nadu is not within its right to take up the project.' Mr. Rao, in his reply to Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary L.K. Tripathy, said the grant of