Chennai: PMK (Pattali Makkal Katchi) today (Jun 17, 2004) charged Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa with 'passing on the buck' to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) president M Karunanidhi in the matter of getting Cauvery waters to Tamil Nadu and said she was politicising the issue.

"When all the political parties were talking in one voice in Karnataka on the issue, Jayalalithaa, by blaming the Opposition parties, was politicising the issue," PMK founder Dr S Ramadoss told a press conference.

He said by making Sonia Gandhi and Karunanidhi responsible for getting water, Jayalalithaa had washed her hands off. He said if Jayalalithaa was unable to get water, she should dissolve the State Assembly and seek a fresh mandate from the people.

He said he had reliable information that Jayalalithaa was contemplating early polls to the State Assembly. The elections were scheduled only in 2006, but she wanted to advance the polls for February next year along with the Assembly polls in Bihar and Jharkand, he said adding that the recent spate of concessions announced by her was with an eye on the Assembly polls.

He demanded the resignation of Vice Chancellor of Anna University Dr E Balagurusamy, owning responsibility for the confusion in the admissions to engineering colleges. He said several questions in the common entrance examinations for admission to professional colleges could not be answered by students as they were not in the syllabus.