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YSR's remark flayed

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, JULY 23. The BJP has taken exception to Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy's remarks that the State Government has pleaded release of water by Karnataka from Alamatti on `humanitarian grounds.'

The BJP official spokesman, S.V. Seshagiri Rao, and former MLA, K. Laxman, told reporters on Friday that there was no need for Dr. Reddy to be so apologetic as it was the right of the State to get 460 tmcft from upstream Krishna. The State was allotted 800 tmcft of Krishna water by the Bachawat tribunal, of which 340 tmcft was to be from generation in the local catchment and the remaining through inflows upstream.

Dr. Reddy's plea that the State had no right over Alamatti water and he was only making the case on humanitarian grounds amounted to injuring the right. They also took exception to TDP president, N. Chandrababu Naidu's proposal to the all-party delegation to Delhi to call on AICC president, Sonia Gandhi, to strengthen the State's plea for release of water by Karnataka. It would strengthen the role of extra constitutional authority, which she played.

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