Revanth assisting Andhra’s Polavaram-Nallamalasagar project, alleges BRS

BRS elder MLA and erstwhile curate T. Harish Rao has accused the Congress authorities of enabling the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh authorities to plunder Telangana’s h2o resources successful the sanction of the Polavaram–Nallamalasagar Link Project (PNLP) done its imprudent actions. He demanded that the State authorities exert unit connected the Centre by staging a protestation successful beforehand of the Central Water Commission (CWC), which, helium alleged, had granted support to A.P. to usage 200 TMC ft of h2o from the Godavari.

Addressing a property league astatine the enactment State bureau connected Tuesday, Mr. Rao alleged that Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy is assisting the Andhra Pradesh authorities due to the fact that N. Chandrababu Naidu is his governmental mentor. He besides accused Mr. Reddy of making blatant mendacious statements regarding the gathering convened by the Union Ministry of Jal Shakti, which was attended by the Chief Ministers and Irrigation Ministers of some Telangana and Andhra Pradesh connected July 16, 2025 successful New Delhi.

“Mr. Revanth Reddy initially said helium would not be the meeting, but helium did. He aboriginal claimed that the Godavari–Banakacharla nexus was not connected the agenda, yet it was included. Although helium asserted that the taxable was not discussed, it was so deliberated astatine the meeting, and Revanth Reddy adjacent signed the related documents,” Mr. Rao said. He added that the Andhra Pradesh authorities had so withdrawn the Polavaram–Banakacharla Link Project aft Karnataka and Maharashtra stated they would assertion their stock of h2o nether the Bachawat Tribunal grant if h2o was diverted from the Godavari to the Krishna.

“In airy of this, the Andhra Pradesh authorities is present proposing the Polavaram–Nallamalasagar Link Project (PNLP). However, this caller task would severely harm Telangana’s h2o interests,” helium said, demanding the Congress authorities to instrumentality contiguous steps to forestall Andhra Pradesh from executing the project.

Mr. Rao besides criticised the State authorities for appointing retired IAS serviceman and erstwhile Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary Adityanath Das arsenic the caput of a committee to resoluteness h2o disputes betwixt Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. He demanded Das’s removal from the committee, alleging that helium had antecedently acted against Telangana’s h2o interests.