The leaders from the State include Madhusudhan Mistry, Dilip Parikh, Vishnu Pandya, Vipul Chaudhary, Dharampal Chuahdary and Natwarlal Patel (Natu Mama). From Bihar, Lok Sabha member Anand Mohan Singh will join the protest.

Talking to Ahmedabad Newsline on Thursdsay, Vaghela demanded the Vajpayee Government should immediately bring a political solution to the SSP tangle on the Cauvery pattern, in view of the fact that Gujarat had been incurring a loss of Rs 9 crore a day due to the inordinate delay in the implementation of the project.

Mounting a blistering attack on the BJP Governments in the State and at the Centre, he alleged that the BJP had done little in the last four months for a sloution. ``If the BJP-led coalition at the Centre can solve the Cauvery dispute, why it cannot apply the same yardstick in the SSP case'', he contended, adding the Supreme Court had already favoured a political solution.

Vaghela recalled that Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee as the Opposition leader in the Lok Sabha in 1996, had, during a debate on the issue, vociferously sought the Centre's intervention to ensure early implementation of the ambitious project.

``What prevents the Central Government from taking up the issue in right earnest, when Vajpayee is the Prime Minister'', Vaghela asked, recalling even senior leaders Chandra Shekhar, Indrajit Gupta and Sharad Pawar had advocated an early solution on the floor of the Lok Sabha in 1996.

The RJP supremo also lambasted Union Home Minister L K Advani for ``fooling the people of Gujarat on the contentious issue.'' He said: "During the campaigning in the last general elections, one of the main refrains of Advani's speeches was that the SSP should be declared a national project, and if the BJP came to power, it would do so'', and charged Advani with forgetting his promise to the people of the State.