YSR Congress president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy has called upon farmers to get ready for a protracted struggle to press for completion of the Rs 5,150 crore Pulla Subbaiah Veligonda and other pending projects.
Before resuming his bus yatra to irrigation project sites from here on Friday, the Leader of Opposition said “let us join hands for relentless struggle to put pressure on the government to complete all pending projects.” The amount earmarked for the Pattiseema project was enough to complete the long-pending Veligonda project, he added. If the government went ahead with the Pattiseema project, the State would lose 35 tmc of Krishna water each to upper riparian States of Karnataka and Maharastra as per the Krishna water Disputes tribunal award, said Mr Jaganmohan Reddy who was accompanied by, among others, YSRC Parliamentary Party leader Mekapatti Rajmohan Reddy and party Whip in Parliament Y.V.Subba Reddy. “If the government is sincere in ensuring water for ryots in drought-prone Prakasam and Rayalaseema, it should implement Polavaram, Veligonda, Handri Neeva and other pending projects on a war-footing, '' said Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy who went deep inside the first tunnel to inspect the ongoing works.
