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The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has accused the Congress authorities and Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy of keeping soundless connected drawal of Krishna h2o by Andhra Pradesh successful excess of the stock arsenic per the advertisement hoc statement successful unit till finalisation of shares by the Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal (KWDT-II).
Deputy Floor Leader of the BRS successful Assembly and erstwhile curate T. Harish Rao stated present connected Tuesday (February 10) that the contented of excess usage of h2o by A.P. implicit the agreed stock was proved with the missive of Engineer-in-Chief of Telangana addressed to the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) connected January 28.
Quoting the contents of the letter, Mr. Harish Rao against the agreed h2o stock of 66:34 (AP:Telangana) lone 2.45 tmc ft h2o was owed for drawal by A.P. arsenic connected January 27, some from Srisailam and Nagarjunasagar reservoirs. Addressing a property league helium stated that AP had drawn 664 tmc ft of Krishna h2o truthful acold this h2o twelvemonth (2025-26), 16 tmc ft successful excess, and it amounted to implicit 80% stock against its entitlement of 66%.
The BRS person explained that a missive written to the ENC of A.P. by the Member-Secretary of KRMB, successful effect to Telangana’s missive to the board, connected February 6 it was stated that arsenic connected January 29 A.P. had utilised 79.21% and Telangana conscionable 20.79% against their agreed impermanent shares of 66 and 34, respectively. The missive had enactment the h2o drawal of A.P. astatine 555.5 tmc ft arsenic connected January 31 against 156.04 tmc ft.
According to the stream board, the drawal shares enactment retired to 78.07% and 21.93% by AP and Telangana, respectively, arsenic connected January 31. Such a immense excess drawal of h2o by A.P. was making the prospects of lasting crops nether assistance irrigation systems including Kalwakurthy based connected Srisailam reservoir h2o and Left Canal nether Nagarjunasagar task uncertain.
Mr. Harish Rao alleged that Mr. Revanth Reddy was paying ‘guru dakshina’ to his A.P. counterpart and governmental mentor N. Chandrababu Naidu by allowing the neighbouring State to gully Krishna h2o indiscriminately. He further alleged that the Telangana authorities had kept the ENC post, which would prosecute the substance of stream h2o use, vacant for astir a week aft the status of Mohd. Amjad Hussain connected January 29.
He accused the Centre led by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) excessively of doing injustice to Telangana by favouring A.P. successful the substance of stream h2o use, contempt 2 Union Ministers from Telangana. He demanded that the State authorities halt h2o drawal by A.P. instantly and transportation guardant the unused h2o this twelvemonth to adjacent h2o twelvemonth oregon other the BRS would not support soundless and signifier a protestation astatine KRMB office, if necessary.
