GUNTUR: The Bharatiya Janata Party has demanded that Government convene an all-party meeting to discuss ways and means of protecting the interests of the State in the sharing of Krishna waters. It has charged the Government with relinquishing its right over surplus waters through an affidavit.

"At the recent Second Krishna Waters Tribunal hearing on the sharing of waters, the State Government has failed to appoint a lawyer in time. The last minute appointment has led to the State filing an affidavit which gives right to Karnataka to go ahead with its projects," said BJP State president N. Indrasena Reddy here on Tuesday.

He asked the Government to convene an in-camera meeting with legal experts and persons representing the State at the tribunal and all political parties.

The Tribunal did not stop Karnataka from going ahead with its projects after Andhra Pradesh filed the affidavit, he added.

Farmers under NSP and Krishna Delta ayacut would suffer in the long run with the State relinquishing its right over surplus waters, he said, pointing out that the BJP had been asking the Government to properly study our needs vis-à-vis our projects.

ORR project

"The Congress Government is corrupt to the core. Personal interests of its leaders mattered most than the general welfare of people," he charged.

On the Outer Ring Road project, he said that a Cabinet sub-committee would not be able to bring all irregularities to book.

Let there be a judicial probe by a sitting judge on why the alignment had to be changed and why notices once served had to be withdrawn, he said.

"Congress and Telangana Rashtra Samiti have cheated people of Telangana. But, the BJP is clear on its stand of dividing the State into two for better development of both the regions for which the Second SRC is not essential," Mr. Indrasena Reddy opined.

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