Telugu Desam Party MPs on Monday protested in front of Mahatma Gandhi's statue in parliament after apprising the Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar of the treatment their party president N Chandrababu Naidu and his team suffered at the hands of the Maharashtra police at Dharmabad earlier in the month.
The MPs narrated in detail the entire episode of the planned visit of Naidu and his team to the site of the Babli Irrigation project, how they were arrested inside AP territory by the Maharashtra police, and how they were detained in inhuman conditions at the ITI in Dhramabad.
Shouting slogans against the Maharashtra government, the TDP MPs demanded an immediate halt to the illegal constructions across the Godavari as part of the Babli Irrigation Project. The MPs also demanded that the centre immediately interfere in the issue and solve the issue of sharing of waters between Karnataka and Maharashtra (who are upper riparian states) with Andhra Pradesh (which is the lower riparian state).
The TDP MPs said the Central Water Commission's must direct the Maharashtra government to stop works on the 14 barrages as part of the Babli Project.
Courtesy: INN
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