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YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) leaders from Rayalaseema connected Thursday (February 05, 2026) demanded that the State authorities implicit Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation (RLI) Project astatine immoderate outgo and announced that a sustained people’s question volition proceed until works resume.
Speaking astatine the “Chalo Pothireddypadu” gathering astatine Pothulapadu colony successful Nandikotkur, the YSRCP leaders and husbandman groups from Rayalaseema, Nellore, and Prakasam said that halting the task risks turning Rayalaseema into a godforsaken and jeopardising the region’s future. They vowed to instrumentality consciousness to each village, exposure alleged conspiracies against Rayalaseema, and physique wider governmental unity to unit the government, informing of governmental consequences for TDP successful the portion if the task remains stalled.
YSRCP State coordinator Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy termed the stoppage a sedate injustice to the drought-prone Rayalaseema and its farmers. He asked wherefore Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu did not respond to his Telangana counterpart A. Revanth Reddy’s remarks astir the project. He said deficiency of sincerity connected RLI would pb to Chandrababu Naidu’s governmental downfall and stressed that Rayalaseema, similar Telangana, indispensable entree Srisailam h2o astatine the 800-foot level.
He reiterated that assured irrigation and drinking h2o are the ground of existent development, a imaginativeness earlier pursued by erstwhile Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, and said that RLI is the lone lasting solution to the region’s h2o distress.
Speakers recalled that precocious Rajasekhara Reddy had laid the instauration for improvement of irrigation done Pothireddypadu, Handri-Neeva and Galeru-Nagari, and erstwhile Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy accelerated works.
