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Tuesday, Jan 04, 2005

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YSR trying to divert Krishna waters: TDP leader

By Our Staff Reporter

NALGONDA, JAN. 3. The Telugu Desam vice-president, G.Sukhender Reddy, alleged that the Chief Minister, Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy, is trying to divert the surplus Krishna waters to his own district, Cuddapah, by denying water to the fluoride-affected Nalgonda district.

Speaking to reporters at the party office here on Monday, he demanded that priority be accorded to the ongoing irrigation projects in the backward Telangana region. He also found fault with the Government for not giving administrative sanction for the Srisailam Left Bank Canal tunnel project.

Questions claim

Ridiculing the Nalgonda MLA, K.Venkat Reddy's statement that tender notification would be released in a couple of days, the former MP sought to know how he could go ahead without getting administrative sanction.

"The engineers are in a catch-22 situation since the Government was asking them to go in for tender notification without giving the much desired administrative sanction,'' he added.

Taking exception to the MLA's allegations that the TDP was not in favour of the tunnel works, Mr.Sukhender Reddy recalled that the former Chief Minister, Chandrababu Naidu, had asked the officials to prepare a plan to take up the works during his visit to the district. "The MLA is trying to blame us since we are all set to undertake padayatras, protesting the delay in grounding works of the irrigation projects in the district,'' he said.

He criticised the Government for not clearing a file related to low level canal under the Alimineti Madhava Reddy project. The TDP district president, B.Lingaiah Yadav, was also present.

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