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A non-political programme, says ryots' body

By Our Staff Reporter

VIJAYAWADA, JULY 18. Saying the Government is "turning a deaf ear" to their repeated pleas on release of water to the Krishna delta, the Telugu Desam Party TDP and its ally, Bharatiya Janata Party, are gearing to mobilise hundreds of farmers and workers besides their own activists for laying siege to the Krishna barrage for about four hours.

At a press conference here on Sunday, the district TDP president, T.D.Janardhan Rao, the vice-president of the Federation of the Farmers' Associations, A.Bhavani Prasad, and the senior farmers' leader, Y.Nagendra Nath, said the protest would commence at 10 am. The TDP would not hesitate to seek the support of the Left and other like-minded parties on the issue in the interest of the farmers of the delta region.

The TDP leader charged the Chief Minister with failing to prevail upon his Karnataka counterpart to release water from the Alamatti reservoir which had better inflows this year. There was also a possibility of releasing water to the delta from the Srisailam reservoir.

Mr. Prasad who addressed media along with the TDP leaders claimed that his organisation wanted to make the issue a "wholly non-political programme''. Meanwhile, at a separate press conference, the BJP city unit president, L.R.K. Prasad, and the general secretary, P.V. Ram Sai, criticised the Chief Minister for "his failure to persuade the Karnataka Government for releasing water from the Alamatti".

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