KCR To Hold Public Meeting Against Projects' Handover To KRMB

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

Addressing a meeting of party leaders at Telangana Bhavan, KCR said that the interests of Telangana's farmers would be harmed by the decision of the State government, and vowed to fight for the protection of Telangana's rights over the Krishna river waters.

"For the last 10 years the BRS government worked hard to protect the Krishna waters from the Centre's moves to take them over 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," he lamented. "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," he said.

He also expressed concern that the people of the combined districts of Hyderabad, Ranga Reddy, Nalgonda, Khammam and Mahabubnagar were now at risk of losing water for irrigation and getting into a drought.

He said that it was the responsibility of the BRS activists to build another people's movement now to reverse what had happened, and ensure that the rights of the State were not violated.

The high-level meeting of the BRS chaired by KCR also had BRS working president K T Rama Rao, former ministers Harish Rao, G Jagdish Reddy, Srinivas Goud, Niranjan Reddy, Sabitha Indra Reddy, Talasani Srinivas Yadav, Malla Reddy, Puvvada Ajay Kumar and Satyavathi Rathod, MLAs, MLCs, MPs and others in attendance.