Andhra Pradesh would lose out in getting river waters if it failed to abstain from coming in the way of irrigation projects in Telangana, Telangana Irrigation Minister T Harish Rao warned.
Addressing a press conference at Secretariat on Tuesday evening, Rao demanded that Andhra Pradesh immediately withdraw its letter written to the Karnataka government against the RDS works through which Telangana was entitled to get 15.9 TMC. (Kurnool district officials had asked their Karnataka counterparts to stall the works related to the anicut, 50% of which is in Telangana and 50% is in Karnataka.)
"We have complained to the Krishna Water Management Board on the issue, and hope that the AP government will stop its inhuman behavior of coming in the way of the projects of Telangana and deprive it of irrigation waters," he said.
Rao alleged that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and YSR Congress Party chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy were sparring for political gains in their State. "Naidu and Jagan fighting against our projects is ridiculous as the previous AP government had approved them and allocations were made to Telangana and AP by the Brijesh Tribunal and the Bachawat Committee. My AP counterpart Devineni Umamaheswar Rao is in denial mode on the issue though I spoke to him for about six times," he said.
If the TDP government failed to cooperate, Telangana would move court to get its rightful share of waters, he warned.