Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) has given a call for bandh in Mahabubnagar district on Friday protesting Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu\u2019s attempts to scuttle the Palamuru Lift Irrigation project.<\/p>\n
Stating that the project has no water allocation, Chandrababu Naidu has written a letter to Central Water Commission urging to stop the project.<\/p>\n
It is said in Andhra Pradesh that the project, for which T-chief minister Chandrasekhar Rao laid foundation stone on 11 June,2015, if constructed would affect the diversion of Krishna water to Rayalaseema districts. Even YSR Congress, a friendly party of TRS, has also expressed displeasure over the construction of Lift on River Krishna.<\/p>\n
The TRS district president shiva Kumar appealed to people, educational institutions, trade bodies, government and private offices to partake in the bandh and make it a success as it was meant to preserve the water rights of the district.<\/p>\n
Telangana Irrigation Minister T Harish Rao took strong objection to Naidu\u2019s anti-project stance.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt a time when the Telangana government is struggling to give water to backward district through this project, AP CM Naidu is writing letter to exert pressure on the centre to stall the project, \u201cHarish said.<\/p>\n
He reminded Naidu that he had adopted the district for nine year. \u201cYou adopted the district for nine years but did nothing. We have not objected to Pattiseem even though it was not permitted.\u00a0 We both should follow the policy of \u201clive and let live\u201d Harish told media in Hyderabad.<\/p>\n
Industries minister Jupally Krishna Rao, MLAs Karne Prabhakar, A Jeevan Reddy, TRS district President Shiva Kumar accused Naidu of trying to stall the project.<\/p>\n
They warned Naidu of dire consequences if the project was stalled. Jupally said the project would be completed come what may.<\/p>\n
The Industries minister said the project had already been cleared in the united-state itself and as such no fresh permission was necessary. He argued that many of the projects taken up AP in Rayalaseema, and mega project Polavarm were illegal.<\/p>\n
Many organization of government employees such as TNGO, TGO, RTC have extended support to the bandh.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, on Thursday, TRS organized protest rallies in the district and effigies of Chandrababu Naidu had also been burnt.<\/p>\n
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Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) has given a call for bandh in Mahabubnagar district on Friday protesting Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu\u2019s attempts to scuttle the Palamuru Lift Irrigation project. Stating that the project has no water allocation, Chandrababu Naidu has written a letter to Central Water Commission urging to stop the project. It is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1230,1776,2567,2738,3132,3553],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n