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Barrages on Krishna: TDP blames State’s inaction

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TDP for talks with Krishna water tribunal, the Union and Karnataka governments
State government cautioned against ignoring crucial issue

HYDERABAD: The Telugu Desam on Wednesday contended that Srisailam, Nagarjunasagar, Telugu Ganga and other projects may not receive any inflows with Karnataka constructing 55 bridge-cum-barrages on the Krishna and upstream, thanks to the State government’s negligence.

Addressing a press conference, party leaders Nagam Janardhan Reddy and K. Yerran Naidu said large parts of the State may turn into a desert with Karnataka bent upon impounding 100 tmcft of Krishna water much like what Maharashtra did to Sriramsagar by building Babli and 11 other barrages on the Godavari.

They cautioned the government against ignoring the issue easy as it had done when the TDP brought to light the construction of Babli and other barrages in 2004. At that time, the government dismissed them as check dams and mounted a counter attack on TDP saying it did not do anything when it was in power. But today the Congress government itself accepted that work on Babli and other projects began in September 2004, four months after it had assumed charge.

The TDP leaders wanted the government to take up the issue with the Krishna water tribunal, the Union and Karnataka governments and save irrigation projects and the State. Meanwhile, the TDP leader, M. V. Mysoora Reddy, raised the issue in the Rajya Sabha.

YSR lambasted

On encouraging defections, Mr. Yerran Naidu accused Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy of resorting to the “unethical and immoral” act of openly encouraging defections, referring to the way the latter welcomed the ZPTCs who got elected on TDP ticket into the Congress fold.

Dr. Janardhan Reddy demanded an apology from APCC president D. Srinivas and Ministers K. Venkat Reddy and D. K. Aruna for their comment that the Opposition members should sit at home as the Government would not leave any work for them.

It is nothing but insulting the 137-strong Opposition MLAs and the people who had elected them. The party would consider moving a privilege motion against the Ministers.

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