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Protest against move to `divert' gas

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`State fails to explore reserves in Krishna-Godavari basin'

Kakinada: The Krishna-Godavari basin gas reserves should be utilised solely for the industrial growth and prosperity of the State and gas diversion to other states should not be allowed under any circumstances, said Guduru Narayana Reddy, convenor of the action committee.

Commencing the one-day mass hunger strike along with a large number of his supporters in front of the Collectorate here on Tuesday, he said, pipeline construction works started to ensure uninterrupted supply of the gas to Gujarat for nearly 30 years period passing through six districts in the State and also via Karnataka and Maharashtra.

Stating that over 2,000 workers from China were pressed into service to execute the pipeline project, he said, people should not allow the injustice being meted out to the State but resist with all their might. He alleged that the Government had failed to explore the gas reserves in the KG Basin and allowed the other states to exploit the valuable gas reserves.

Support extended

Narayana Reddy said that Minister for Animal Husbandry Gollapalli Suryarao, MLAs Mutha Gopalakrishna, Kudupudi Chittebbai and ZP Chairman CH. S. Venugopala Krishna had called on the hunger strikers and expressed their solidarity to the movement started by them. He said the action committee-`KG Basin gas Parirakshana Samithi' would launch the Yathra programme along the pipeline near Samalkot from tomorrow addressing village wise meetings creating awareness among them on the need for fighting for their rights over the KG Basin gas reserves.

He said the Yathra would pass through six districts - East and West Godavari, Krishna, Rangareddy, Medak and conclude at Zahirabad on February 5 covering as many as 102 villages.

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