Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Tuesday fired a salvo at Bharat Rashtra Samithi president and former chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao and Union minister G Kishan Reddy for playing a spoilsport in the protection of the Telangana state interests in the utilization of river Godavari and Krishna waters.
Speaking at a power point presentation on Polavaram-Banakacharla project at Praja Bhavan, the chief minister accused KCR of being responsible for the present crisis in water sharing between AP and Telangana state.
It was KCR who permitted the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh to utilize Godavari water without specific allocations.”
In a meeting held on June 18, 2015, KCR and Harish signed the ‘death warrant’ for Telangana and signed the water allocation with their AP counterparts”.
Revanth Reddy exposed the KCR’s government in the allocation and utilization of water from Godavari and Krishna. Out of 1486 TMC in the Godavari basin, 968 TMC were allocated to Telangana and 518 TMC to Andhra.
“AP Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu took advantage of KCR’s statement of availability of 3,000 TMC of flood waters and constructing projects by AP government without allocation of water between the two states,” he said.
“Uttam Kumar Reddy and I have nothing to do with Rayalaseema prawn soup. We have to deal with the rights of the people of Telangana. For this, we are ready to fight anywhere with a fair approach”, the chief minister affirmed.
The CM dared Harish Rao to come for a debate on Godavari and Krishna water for two days in the assembly. The BRS should write a letter in Speaker format for this.
