Siddeswaram Weir movement to mark a decade of struggle for Rayalaseema’s rights

Rayalaseema Saguneeti Sadhana Samithi Protection Committee president Bojja Dasaratha Ramireddy has announced that the 10th day normal of the Siddeswaram Weir People’s Foundation Movement volition beryllium held successful Nandyal connected May 31.

Addressing the media, Mr. Ramireddy said the movement, launched connected May 31, 2016, had played a cardinal relation successful creating consciousness astir Rayalaseema’s irrigation rights, determination disparities, and the request for decentralised governance and development. At a clip erstwhile the portion lacked a beardown people’s movement, the Siddeswaram Weir inaugural laid the instauration for a sustained antiauthoritarian struggle, helium said.

Over the past decade, the question had helped bring issues specified arsenic irrigation rights, determination imbalance, and the attraction of governmental and economical powerfulness into nationalist discourse, helium noted.

Mr. Ramireddy alleged that contempt a bid of antiauthoritarian agitations and nationalist campaigns implicit the past 12 years, successive governments had failed to guarantee justness for Rayalaseema. He criticised the governments led by N. Chandrababu Naidu and Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, accusing them of straying from the improvement imaginativeness of erstwhile Chief Ministers N. T. Rama Rao and Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy and thereby slowing the region’s progress.

He besides criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party, alleging that contempt promising an further allocation of 200 TMC ft of assured h2o to Rayalaseema successful its Rayalaseema Declaration, the enactment aboriginal compromised the region’s h2o interests for governmental reasons.

According to Mr. Ramireddy, governments implicit the past decennary had focused connected strengthening governmental and economical powerfulness centres portion neglecting backward regions specified arsenic Rayalaseema and North Andhra. In that context, the forthcoming normal assumes significance, helium said.

Several salient personalities, including Vadde Shobanadreeswara Rao, Jhansi Lakshmi, Justice Gopala Gowda, and Prof. Venkateshu, are expected to enactment successful the normal and talk connected Rayalaseema’s rights, balanced determination development, and antiauthoritarian governance.