TG govt. letting A.P. continue ‘water theft’ with Polavaram project: Harish Rao

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BRS person  T. Harish Rao speaking to the media successful  Hyderabad connected  Friday.

BRS person T. Harish Rao speaking to the media successful Hyderabad connected Friday. | Photo Credit: By Arrangement

HYDERABAD

Senior BRS person and Deputy Floor Leader successful the Assembly T. Harish Rao has accused the Revanth Reddy Government of cooperating with Andhra Pradesh successful a methodical mode for "river h2o theft" done the Polavaram-Nallamalasagar Link Project (PNLP).

Except the alteration of sanction from Polavaram-Banakacherla Link Project (PBLP) to PNLP, A.P.’s h2o theft program is 1 and the same, portion the Congress Government successful Telangana is washing disconnected its hands by releasing backdated letters aft the rise of dependable by BRS and holding occasional property conferences contempt the BRS efforts to aftermath the authorities up from heavy slumber, helium said.

It was with the fingers of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy that his AP counterpart and mentor N. Chandrababu Naidu was hurting the oculus of Telangana radical and the contiguous Congress Government was continuing the injustice heaped connected Telangana radical successful the substance of stream h2o sharing and utilisation started by the enactment governments successful combined AP, Mr. Harish Rao said addressing a property league present connected Friday.

The Revanth Reddy Government was scripting the decease condemnation to Telangana’s rightful stock successful stream waters astatine a gathering of the irrigation section authorities of the 2 States and chaired by Chairman of the Central Water Commission (CWC) successful New Delhi connected Friday.

An introspection of the events related to PBLP/PNLP would intelligibly bespeak that determination was a conspiracy to enactment AP’s plans, the erstwhile curate for irrigation said and explained that Mr. Revanth Reddy attended a gathering astatine Delhi successful July past aft repeatedly refusing to be it and discussed the contented of PBLP aft making it wide earlier the gathering that it was not successful the agenda.

In the meeting, Mr. Reddy had agreed for a associated committee of irrigation/water resources officials to sermon the issue. Later, the State Government (Telangana) moved the Supreme Court aft the past day for filing bids for the project, giving an indirect nod/no objection for the project. The writ petition was withdrawn arsenic the Apex Court had observed that determination was nary substance successful it.

Mr. Harish Rao sought to cognize wherefore the irrigation authorities from the State were attending the gathering aft penning to the Ministry of Jal Shakti and specifying conditions to halt enactment connected the mentation of elaborate task study of PNLP and besides to halt the process of clearances including the pre-feasibility report. He asked whether the Centre had agreed for some since the gathering was being attended.

Reminding the bully enactment done by the erstwhile BRS authorities connected the irrigation front, Mr. Harish Rao said the Economic Survey Report submitted to Parliament connected January 29 had complimented Kaleshwaram and Mission Kakatiya interventions to summation the irrigated country successful Telangana phenomenally.

Published - January 30, 2026 07:08 p.m. IST

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