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Water Resources Minister Nimmala Ramanaidu connected Monday launched a crisp onslaught connected erstwhile Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, accusing him of spreading falsehoods and betraying the interests of Rayalaseema during his five-year tenure.
Addressing the media, Mr. Ramanaidu alleged that Mr. Jagan had travel to symbolise fabrication and mendacious propaganda, portion Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu stood for truth, stableness and commitment. He said radical of Andhra Pradesh were nary longer inclined to judge what helium described arsenic pages of lies being published by the YSRCP.
The Minister alleged that nary Chief Minister successful the State’s past had inflicted arsenic overmuch injustice connected Rayalaseema arsenic Mr. Jagan. He recalled that support for the Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation Scheme was granted connected May 5, 2020, during the YSRCP regime, and alleged that the aforesaid authorities facilitated a enactment bid from the National Green Tribunal connected May 20 that year.
Mr. Ramanaidu said lone ₹2,000 crore was allocated to Rayalaseema irrigation projects during the full five-year regularisation of Mr. Jagan. In contrast, helium claimed, the contiguous conjugation authorities had already spent ₹8,000 crore connected Rayalaseema projects wrong the archetypal one-and-a-half years of assuming office.
Referring to task execution, helium said the Handri-Neeva Sujala Sravanthi project, which the erstwhile authorities failed to implicit successful 5 years, was completed by the contiguous authorities wrong a year. He questioned the YSRCP’s committedness to Rayalaseema, asking wherefore not adjacent a azygous rupee was spent oregon a shovelful of world moved for the task during its tenure.
Mr. Ramanaidu credited Mr. Naidu with extending Krishna h2o up to the Punganur subdivision canal (738 km), the Madakasira subdivision canal (493 km) and the Amarapuram tank. He said Rayalaseema’s tanks were brimming lone during Mr. Naidu’s tenure aft the epoch of Sri Krishnadevaraya.
He further argued that portion astir 3,000 tmc ft of Godavari h2o flowed unused into the oversea each year, utilising adjacent 200 tmc ft should not pull objections. “We privation water, not disputes,” helium said, questioning wherefore Telangana’s usage of Kaleshwaram waters was accepted portion Andhra Pradesh’s usage of Polavaram waters was criticised. He accused Telangana leaders and the YSRCP of dragging interstate h2o disputes into Andhra Pradesh for governmental gain, calling it an enactment of sheer imprudence.
