The Congress has termed the agreement between Telangana and Maharashtra on Kaleshwaram as “huge injustice” meted out to Telangana and wondered why the government was portraying it as a historic agreement and misleading people through media blitzkrieg.
Protesting against the agreement, the Congress held black flag demonstrations at all the district Collectorates on Tuesday. “By giving over-exaggerated publicity, the TRS government is portraying as if it has done a favour to farmers in the State by signing the agreement with Maharashtra,” TPCC president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy told reporters while leading the protest at Hyderabad Collectorate.
Memo to Collector
In the memorandum submitted to Hyderabad district Collector, Rahul Bojja, Mr. Reddy reminded that during 1975 to 2012, successive Congress governments have signed several agreements with Maharashtra over the usage of Godavari waters, and Pranahitha Chevella was one such agreement.
The project was started at a cost of Rs.38,500 crore to construct a barrage at Tummuddihatti at 152 meters height to use 160 TMC of water.
The height of Tammidihatti was decided to be 152 meters keeping in view the submergence in the area for over 100 years and was designed by technical experts.
The project could have provided irrigation facility to 16.4 lakh acres land in 7 districts in the State, besides providing drinking water to the neighbouring areas, and 30 TMC drinking water to Hyderabad, he said adding that the government has redesigned the project to escalate cost.
He alleged that TRS government has now agreed to decrease the barrage height at Tammidihatti to 148 meters and construct barrage at Medigadda that will submerge 3,000 acres.
“To save 1,800 acres in Maharashtra, the Chief Minister is ready to submerge 3,000 acres of Telangana,” he charged.
Earlier, Congress leaders, including TPCC working president Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, former TPCC chief, Ponnala Lakshmaiah, former MPs V. Hanmantha Rao and M. Anjan Kumar Yadav, former minister Danam Nagender and others went in a rally from Gandhi Bhavan to the district Collectorate.
