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`Opposition special' for Delhi on May 14

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Leaders to pressure Centre to stop Babli project work

TESTING THE WATERS: TDP chief N. Chandrababu Naidu offering `puja' at Sriramsagar Project before launching the `maha dharna' against Babli project at Pochampadu on Tuesday.

POCHAMPADU (NIZAMABAD Dt.): Telugu Desam Party chief N. Chandrababu Naidu has said leaders of his party and other like-minded opposition parties will go to New Delhi in a special train to bring pressure on the Centre to direct Maharashtra to stop construction of Babli project, on May 14.

If the Centre fails to intervene in the controversy over the Babli and other projects being constructed across the Godavari by Maharashtra, his party leaders and workers will stage a dharna in front of official residences of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance Sonia Gandhi.

Setting a fresh agenda for his party for agitation against the construction of the Babli project, at the "maha dharna" staged by the TDP workers near the Sri Ram Sagar Project here on Tuesday, he also called upon the ruling Congress to join the proposed agitation in New Delhi.

Congress faulted

Beaming with pleasure at the mammoth crowd that turned up from six Telangana districts of Warangal, Nalgonda, Karimnagar, Adilabad, Khammam and Mahaboobnagar at the SRSP site for the maha dharna, he blamed the Congress for the illegal construction of Babli which he said would turn the entire Telangana into a desert.

Mr. Naidu accused the Centre of conniving with Maharashtra and showing a step-motherly attitude towards Andhra Pradesh. The Centre, if need be, should use Article 356 to make Maharashtra relent, he said.

He declared the dharna open around 1 p.m. after offering puja to goddess Godavari at SRSP reservoir. The dharna concluded at 6 p.m. Thousands of TDP workers arrived from six districts to participate in the dharna.

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