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Babli project: TDP to lead another team to New Delhi

Staff Reporter

Party leaders to call on Chief Minister Rosaiah today

HYDERABAD: Making its intentions of using Babli project as a major issue for by-elections in Telangana clear, the TDP has observed that every political party that has failed to react on the illegal projects of Maharashtra across Godavari is the traitor of Telangana.

The party has planned to lead a delegation of its leaders from six beneficiary districts of Sriramsagar Project, which it says will go dry if Maharashtra completes all 14 projects taken up on Godavari, to New Delhi on June 29 to represent the issue to Central Water Commission and Union Water Resources Minister.

A team of the party will also call on Chief Minister K. Rosaiah here on Monday.

Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, TDP leaders K. Srihari and S. Venugopala Chary alleged that it was due to the inability of the Congress Government in the State, Maharashtra had gone ahead with its illegal projects. No other party including TRS had taken up the issue of 14 barrages-cum-reservoirs being constructed by Maharashtra across Godavari. Against the claims of Maharashtra that only 8.7 TMC ft would be utilised with the barrages, it was planning to siphon off 167 TMC Godavari waters illegally leaving the Sriramsagar Project dry.

The ayacut of 18 lakh acres in Nizamabad, Warangal, Karimnagar, Adilabad, Nalgonda and Khammam districts would turn into a desert, if all the illegal projects were completed, the TDP leaders noted. Blaming former Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, incumbent K. Rosaiah, Irrigation Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah and the Centre for their failure to stop Maharashtra going ahead with illegal projects, the TDP leaders said they would chalk out future course of their agitation based on the response of the CWC and Centre.

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