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YSR Congress Party’s Nellore territory president Kakani Govardhan Reddy and Sarvepalli MLA Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy, some erstwhile Agriculture Ministers, traded charges implicit irrigation shortages successful Sarvepalli Assembly constituency successful Nellore district.
The speech comes contempt important retention successful the Somasila and Kandaleru reservoirs. While Somasila presently has astir 68 TMC of h2o and Kandaleru astir 52 TMC, considered capable to irrigate ayacut areas and support lasting crops, respective upland villages are reportedly facing h2o shortages owed to operational and attraction issues.
Mr. Govardhan Reddy blamed silt-clogged canals for the concern and alleged that funds meant for desilting works had been diverted. On Sunday, helium visited h2o bodies successful Kagithalapuru colony of Manubolu mandal on with section farmers. Later speaking to the media, helium accused the TDP authorities of opting for assistance irrigation works alternatively of ensuring gravity travel done due canal maintenance.
Dismissing the allegations, Mr. Chandramohan Reddy described them arsenic politically motivated and attributed them to what helium termed arsenic heartburn wrong the YSRCP implicit the government’s swift effect to the issue. A erstwhile Minister who failed to guarantee capable irrigation successful the past was present shedding crocodile tears, helium remarked, asserting that not a azygous acre successful the constituency would beryllium allowed to spell barren.
