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Hans India
15 hours ago
- Politics
- Hans India
River water disputes: TG govt ready for dialogue with AP
Hyderabad: The Telangana Cabinet will meet on June 24 to finalize an action plan to find an amicable solution to the snowballing inter-state row over the Bankacharla project through a dialogue with Andhra Pradesh government, while keeping its option to fight for the state's needs. During an interaction with media persons before leaving for Hyderabad from New Delhi on Friday evening, Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy said that he did not want to develop animosity with the neighbouring state. He said he would prefer to resolve water disputes in a friendly atmosphere. In the wake of rising river water disputes among southern states, particularly AP, Karnataka and Maharashtra, the Chief Minister said: 'Our policy is to continue good relations with all states and find a solution to the river water disputes with each state through talks only'. Revanth Reddy took a broadside at former chief minister and BRS supremo K Chandrashekar Rao and T Harish Rao for politicizing the Banakacharla issue. He said that the Banakacharla issue was the result of KCR and Harish Rao agreeing to AP lifting water from Godavari at the Apex Council meeting in 2016. The official meetings held between AP and Telangana CMs in 2019 also sowed the seeds of exploitation of Godavari water by the neighbouring state. Revanth Reddy questioned the silence of the former chief minister KCR on the GOs issued by the AP government in 2016 and 2018 for Banakacharla. The CM took a swipe also at Union Minister for Coal G Kishan Reddy for not coming forward to protect the interests of Telangana from the exploitation of Godavari and Krishna water by Andhra Pradesh. 'Kishan Reddy is tutor of KTR and KTR is playing a liaison officer role for the Union Minister,' he alleged. Revanth Reddy criticized KCR for not irrigating even 50,000 acres by spending more than Rs 2 lakh crore on Kaleshwaram. The multi-crore Kaleshwaram project was left unused after the damages to the three barrages of Medigadda, Annaram and Sundilla. Further, the Chief Minister alleged that the Union government was indifferent towards Telangana in sanctioning the state's irrigation projects and allocating funds for them. He wondered why the Centre was proactive in releasing funds liberally to the Polavaram project, although Telangana had raised strong objections. He sought to know the Centre's main intention in approving the Banakacharla project without water allocations. 'PM Narendra Modi needs the support of AP CM N Chandrababu Naidu to run the coalition government at the Centre. The BRS wanted to raise the water disputes to survive in Telangana politics', he said.
The Hindu
2 days ago
- Politics
- The Hindu
Eatala Rajender sticks to his guns on KLIP
BJP Malkajgiri MP and former Finance Minister Eatala Rajender has stuck to his guns on the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project (KLIP) getting Cabinet clearance under the KCR regime and offered to quit politics if he was proved wrong. Addressing a press conference on Thursday, to highlight his one year work as an MP, Mr. Rajender was irked when questioned about his stance on the controversial project as told to the Justice Ghose Committee. 'I am being unnecessarily targeted. Doesn't Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy know that no project can be built without Cabinet clearance? Isn't his Cabinet meeting regularly to discuss such issues? There are three ministers in his own Cabinet who were present in the BRS government too, why can't he ask them? I can also state that former Chief Minister KCR even went to the extent of telling various departments not to take unilateral decisions but get them cleared in the Cabinet,' he maintained. The BJP leader said he was ready to provide evidence of the official papers to the media to prove his point. He was also among the first to have opposed the irrigation projects taken up to benefit Andhra Pradesh like the Pothireddypadu work during the Y.S. Rajashekara Reddy Government. Progress report Top BJP leaders, including Union Minister for Coal & Mines G. Kishan Reddy, will be attending a meeting at Imperial Gardens in Secunderabad on June 22, where he will present his one year progress card (works taken up in the constituency) with an exhibition. It will also highlight the Modi Government's initiatives in the third term. Mr. Rajender spoke about the ongoing national highway works, completion of MMTS phase two, Cherlapally terminal station and Malkajgiri station improvement, and proposed flyovers connecting Medchal and Shamirpet. He demanded that the ₹300 crore compensation to be paid to the Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) by the government for the proposed flyovers should be utilised to build housing for the poor in the area itself. Senior leaders S. Malla Reddy and others were present.
NDTV
3 days ago
- Politics
- NDTV
Revanth Reddy Challenges Chandrababu Naidu Over Godavari Water, Blames KCR
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy is known to be a passionate footballer, and by hosting an all-party meeting on Andhra Pradesh's proposed Polavaram-Banakacherla link project, he has scored goals against both his political rival in the state, K Chandrasekhar Rao, and his counterpart in the neighbouring Telugu state, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu. Chief Minister Reddy launched a scathing attack on the former KCR government for pledging the river water interests of Telangana to Andhra Pradesh voluntarily. By playing out multiple videos of former chief minister KCR making offers to Andhra Pradesh to take "excess" waters from Godavari to irrigate the parched Rayalaseema districts, he has painted KCR as the villain, in case Telangana is unable to get its rightful share for the projects that it is building and proposes to build. "KCR and Harish Rao deserve to be punished for their betrayal of Telangana. They have built projects and barrages where we are unable to store or utilise river waters meant for Telangana," he declared. He took a dig at former irrigation minister Mr Rao, mocking him for making light of the sinking of a pillar at the Medigadda Barrage. "Medigadda collapsed and Harish Rao asks, so what if one pillar collapses. You put your heart out, you are six feet tall, let us see what happens to you if your heart is taken out. Will you survive? Medigadda is like the heart of the Kaleshwaram project," Mr Reddy said. In the all-party meeting attended by among others BRS MP Vaddiraju Ravichandra, Chief Minister Reddy shared minutes of apex council meeting held with then Union Minister Uma Bharathi in September, 2016, when KCR was Telangana chief minister and Chandrababu Naidu was Andhra Pradesh chief minister, where KCR had, for the first time, said 3,000 TMC of excess waters is available in the Godavari and that it should be put to good use. "The very foundation for the idea of supplying Godavari waters to Rayalaseema was laid in that meeting. I will send these minutes to Harish Rao and all MPs," Mr Reddy said. He also quoted minutes of a meeting held in 2019 when Jagan Mohan Reddy was chief minister, where, like a big brother, he had offered Godavari waters to quench the thirst of a parched Rayalaseema. The chief minister even said that agreeing to just 299 TMC waters from the Krishna river was a grave mistake by KCR. Mr Reddy said KCR had proposed to convert "Rayalaseema into Ratanala Seema (land of gems)" by letting Godavari water into the basins of the Krishna and Penna, at the expense of Telangana's interests. Mr Ravichandra objected, saying the chief minister was using the meeting to politically target KCR and even said he would walk out. Challenging Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu, Mr Reddy said Mr Naidu may have good relations with the Centre and PM Modi may listen to what he says, but that could not get him all the due permissions for the project. "We have constitutional rights and guarantees under the law. We will exercise our rights under various provisions of the law, fight a political and legal battle, and even go to court. We have many options," Mr Reddy said. Andhra Pradesh has proposed the Polavaram Banakacherla Link Project to link Godavari waters at Polavaram through Bollepalli in Guntur and Banakacherla in Kurnool with the Krishna basin through Penna river. They have claimed that they would transfer 200 TMC of excess water from the Godavari that flows into the sea to provide water to the drought-prone Rayalaseema region. Mr Reddy said if Mr Naidu also believed, like KCR, that 3,000 TMC excess water is available in the Godavari, then Andhra Pradesh should have no problem in giving NOC for full utilisation of 968 TMC already allocated to Telangana and then use whatever excess waters is available. "Instead, Andhra Pradesh has raised objections to almost every single project planned by Telangana, creating obstacles in their completion," Mr Reddy said. Taking on the other Telugu state and challenging its leader who was at one point leader to Mr Reddy as well, is expected to win brownie points for Mr Reddy, who will be hoping to be seen as a champion of Telangana, willing to take on a long-time political associate, who his critics call his guru. The chief minister has proposed an all-party delegation to Delhi to meet Union Minister for water resources to voice serious objections to the Banakacherla project proposed by Andhra Pradesh, pointing out that it would cause an irrevocable loss to the interests of Telangana. He sought to know why Union Minister from Telangana G Kishan Reddy had met the Union Minister today instead of attending the all-party meeting convened in Hyderabad.
Hans India
3 days ago
- Politics
- Hans India
Sharmila says she is a victim of KCR's phone tapping
Visakhapatnam: Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) chief YS Sharmila Reddy said that she is ready to attend the phone tapping case inquiry whenever she is asked to as she was also a victim of it. Speaking to the media here on Wednesday, Sharmila made it clear that it is a fact that the phone tapping occurred as both the YSRCP and TRS governments colluded with one another during their tenure. 'Along with my phone, my husband's and close associates' phones were also tapped. Member of Rajya Sabha Y V Subba Reddy himself confirmed that my phone calls were tapped and also made me hear a recorded audio call which was tapped then,' she said. She swore by the Bible that the phone tapping occurred during YSRCP's tenure. She urged Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu governments to expedite the investigation into the phone tapping case and do justice to victims. Criticising that the relationship shared between YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and K Chandrashekar Rao was stronger than the one shared through blood relation, YS Sharmila Reddy alleged that the phone tapping was a sketch that the two former Chief Ministers did together to weaken her politically and financially in Telangana. Sharmila expressed her anger that the joint operation was carried out by the then chief ministers by tapping phones of political leaders and their followers. However, the APCC chief made it clear that the phone tapping was a small issue compared to the anarchical rule of the Jagan Mohan Reddy and KCR governments. She alleged that Jagan had forgotten the fact that she was his younger sister and had conspired several times against her so that she would not grow economically and politically. 'Jagan has nothing to do with my launching a party in Telangana. But he wanted to crush me for the sake of KCR,' she said.
Hans India
3 days ago
- Politics
- Hans India
Eligible families in KCR's adopted village get Indiramma Houses
Hyderabad: Minister for Revenue Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy on Wednesday announced that the Congress government has sanctioned Indiramma houses to all eligible families in Vasalamarri village of Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district, the village once adopted by former Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao. The Minister, who is set to personally distribute sanction letters to 205 beneficiaries on Thursday, said the Congress government under CM Revanth Reddy is standing by those who were 'betrayed' in the name of development during the previous BRS regime. 'On November 1, 2020, then CM KCR adopted Vasalamarri village. Later, on June 22, 2021, he held a Gram Sabha and shared a community meal with the villagers, promising to develop it into a 'Golden Vasalamarri' and build double-bedroom houses for every family. However, KCR failed to keep his word, as not a single house was built during his tenure. Worse, several homes were demolished on either side of the road for the expansion of the route to KCR's farmhouse, leaving many families homeless. Those affected have been living in makeshift huts and tents ever since. They lost what little they had, and the promise of a model village remained just that, a promise,' Ponguleti recalled. Criticising former Chief Minister KCR, Minister Ponguleti said, 'Vasalamarri clearly shows how people's hopes were used for political gain. KCR said he would set an example for the whole country, but he couldn't even fulfil promises in the village he adopted.' The Minister said that under CM Revanth Reddy's directive, a fresh survey was conducted in the village, and 205 eligible families were identified for Indiramma housing. 'These houses have now been sanctioned. I will personally hand over the approval letters to the beneficiaries,' he said. The Minister reiterated the Congress government's commitment to welfare and inclusive development, stating that the Indiramma housing initiative is being revived to ensure that no deserving family is left without a home.
