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The Cauvery Water Management Authority on August 11 sharply raised its earlier order, directing Karnataka to ensure 12,000 cusecs of water reach Biligundlu daily from August 12 for 15 days, triggering a Karnataka-wide bandh on August 13, even as the Supreme Court hearing on Tamil Nadu's plea for enforcement was deferred to August 17 after Justice Vikram Nath fell ill.
Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay moved a resolution in the Tamil Nadu Assembly on August 12 seeking to permanently freeze Lok Sabha seats at 543 and implement 33% women's reservation from 2029, which was passed with DMK support even as AIADMK's Edappadi K. Palaniswami on August 13 accused the TVK government of politicising the issue.
The Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly on August 11 unanimously adopted two separate resolutions — one urging the Centre to abolish NEET for undergraduate medical admissions, and another opposing the proposed Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026 — with parties across the political spectrum, barring the lone BJP MLA, backing both.
The debate on the TVK government's maiden General and Agriculture budgets in the Tamil Nadu Assembly on August 11 turned personal, with former Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam and Leader of the House K.A. Sengottaiyan trading barbs over political alliance switches, while AIADMK chief Edappadi K. Palaniswami separately told the House that talk of his party and the DMK 'coming together' had wounded him — a claim the DMK also denied.
The Supreme Court on August 10 agreed to hear on August 13 the Tamil Nadu government's plea seeking directions to Karnataka for immediate release of its due share of Cauvery water, with a bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant noting the state's submission that it was not getting its due share in a rain-deficient year.
Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay moved a special resolution in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly on August 10 making it mandatory for the state song 'Tamil Thai Vazhthu' to be rendered first at functions held by government departments, educational institutions and other state-run bodies, which was adopted unanimously by voice vote.
Former AIADMK ministers S.P. Velumani and Natham R. Viswanathan on August 9 held general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami responsible for the party's defeats in the 2021 and 2026 Assembly elections and the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, and demanded the reinstatement of over 400 functionaries removed after this year's Assembly poll.
The DMK, AIADMK, DMDK, PMK and MNM stayed away from a consultative meeting on the Delimitation Bill convened by Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay in Chennai on August 8, with the boycotting parties alleging the session was meant to divert attention from the Cauvery water dispute.