KCR to hold public meeting against projects’ handover to KRMB

Hyderabad: BRS party chief and former Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao today announced that his party would hold a public meeting in Nalgonda district on February 13 protesting against the decision of the State government to hand over the Nagarjuna Sagar and Srisailam dams to KRMB.

Addressing a meeting of the party leaders at Telangana Bhavan here, KCR said the interests of Telangana farmers would be harmed with the decision of the State government. Condemning the anti-Telangana attitude of the State government and with an objective to protect the irrigation rights of Telangana from the Centre, they had decided to hold a huge public meeting in Nalgonda on February 13, he said.

He made it clear that he would fight for protection of Telangana’s rights over Krishna River waters. He also made it clear that it was the responsibility of the BRS party activists to build another people’s movement today and ensure that the rights of Telangana were not violated with the spirit of leading the movement and achieving Telangana and protecting the rights of Telangana.

“The unthinking attitude of the State government has turned into an axe on the irrigation rights of the farmers of south Telangana in the Krishna River basin,” the BRS supremo said while noting that the projects have been handed over to the KRMB by the State government. He said his party was strongly condemning the anti-farmer decisions of the Congress government and added that they would expose the dangerous attitude of the State government in the public domain.

The discussion at the meeting was held on the consequences of the State government handing over the projects on the Krishna River to the KRMB and the losses arising out of it to the State’s farmers. He said the Krishna projects were aimed at protecting the State’s rights over the river waters.

KCR said the BRS party government was credited with not only fighting for the rights of Telangana irrigation and drinking water during the Telangana movement, but also making the people’s slogan “our water belongs to us” a reality within a short time of the beginning of self-rule.

He said for the last 10 years, the BRS government worked hard and protected it from the Centre’s moves to take over the rights of Telangana over the Krishna River projects in the name of KRMB. “But due to the lack of understanding of the Congress government, the decision taken by signing the agreement has made it impossible to even go on the decks of projects in the future while noting that this will be countered with public support.

He expressed concern that the people of the combined districts of Hyderabad, Ranga Reddy, Nalgonda, Khammam and Mahabubnagar were at risk of getting water for irrigation and getting back into the drought. The high-level meeting of the BRS party chaired by KCR decided to reverse the dangerous and foolish attitude of the Congress government and fight to protect Telangana’s rights to one hundred percent of the projects on the Krishna waters. In the meeting, BRS party working president KTR, former ministers Harish Rao, G Jagdish Reddy, Srinivas Goud, Niranjan Reddy, Sabita Indra Reddy, Talasani, Malla Reddy, Puvvada, Satyavathi Rathod, MLAs, MLCs, MPs, and others participated in large numbers.