The Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation Project extension by Jagan Reddy government has caused such a political storm in Telangana that all the parties there are uniting against it. Now, Congress MP Revanth Reddy made a bitter comment saying that YSR damaged Telangana interests by drilling a hole at Pothireddypadu project site while his son Jagan Reddy was bent upon widening it cause greater harm. Telangana was able to lift just 1 TMC from Krishnan basin but Andhra Pradesh was taking away 12 TMC.
Also, Revanth Reddy deplored that there was a conspiracy going on to kill the power projects belonging to Telangana. He made indirect remarks at Srisailam fire tragedy, saying that there were plans to kill old power projects to construct new ones in their place to make fast money.
Revanth made these comments following reports that the National Green Tribunal reserved its orders on the Rayalaseema lift project initiated by Jagan Reddy regime. The Telangana based petitioner, Gavinolla Srinivas, alleged that AP Government misled the experts committee by saying that Pothireddypadu extension project was part of an existing project.
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Instead of making political slogans, why not fight against the excess use by upper riparian state, namely Karnataka who is constructing projects running in to 200 tmc ft and more under both Krishna V& Tungabhadra.. It appears he is only vote bank politics.
Even after allocating surplus water of 227.5 tmc ft to dry areas of TS & AP, why TDP/Telugu Desam [he was part of it] why he did not fight on this? Nearly four decades, this water was used illegally beyond Srisailam Dam and through power production even below dead storage level? Why he did not raised this when we wrote on this in Andhra Jyothi daily news paper at that time.
Even after Dr. YSR initiated and nearly completed these surplus water based projects in Mahboobnagar district, TRS government failed to complete them [as the credit goes to Dr. YSR], then why he did not fight on this to complete them. These would have fetched good dividends to farmers of Mahboobnagar district.
Stop politics and do something positive to dry areas of TS.
sjreddy