Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy is thought to be a passionate footballer, and by web hosting an all-celebration meeting on Andhra Pradesh’s proposed Polavaram-Banakacherla link project, he has scored dreams against both his political rival in the kingdom, K Chandrasekhar Rao, and his counterpart in the neighbouring Telugu state, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu.
Chief Minister Reddy launched a scathing attack on the previous KCR authorities for pledging the river water interests of Telangana to Andhra Pradesh voluntarily.
By playing out more than one movies of former leader minister KCR making gives to Andhra Pradesh to take “excess” waters from Godavari to irrigate the parched Rayalaseema districts, he has painted KCR as the villain, in case Telangana is not able to get its rightful share for the tasks that it is constructing and proposes to build.
“KCR and Harish Rao should be punished for their betrayal of Telangana. They have constructed projects and barrages where we are not able to save or utilise river waters meant for Telangana,” he declared. He took a dig at former irrigation minister Mr Rao, mocking him for making mild of the sinking of a pillar on the Medigadda Barrage.
“Medigadda collapsed and Harish Rao asks, so what if one pillar collapses. You positioned your coronary heart out, you’re six toes tall, let us see what happens to you if your coronary heart is taken out. Will you survive? Medigadda is like the heart of the Kaleshwaram assignment,” Mr Reddy stated.
In the all-party assembly attended by means of among others BRS MP Vaddiraju Ravichandra, Chief Minister Reddy shared mins of apex council assembly held with then Union Minister Uma Bharathi in September, 2016, when KCR changed into Telangana chief minister and Chandrababu Naidu turned into Andhra Pradesh leader minister, in which KCR had, for the primary time, said three,000 TMC of extra waters is available in the Godavari and that it have to be placed to right use.
“The very foundation for the concept of providing Godavari waters to Rayalaseema became laid in that assembly. I will send those mins to Harish Rao and all MPs,” Mr Reddy said.
He additionally quoted mins of a meeting held in 2019 while Jagan Mohan Reddy become leader minister, wherein, like a massive brother, he had supplied Godavari waters to quench the thirst of a parched Rayalaseema. The leader minister even stated that agreeing to simply 299 TMC waters from the Krishna river became a grave mistake via KCR.
Mr Reddy said KCR had proposed to convert “Rayalaseema into Ratanala Seema (land of gem stones)” through letting Godavari water into the basins of the Krishna and Penna, at the cost of Telangana’s pursuits.
Mr Ravichandra objected, announcing the leader minister changed into using the assembly to politically target KCR or even stated he would stroll out.
Challenging Andhra Pradesh leader minister Chandrababu Naidu, Mr Reddy stated Mr Naidu may additionally have true family members with the Centre and PM Modi may concentrate to what he says, but that couldn’t get him all the due permissions for the project.
“We have constitutional rights and ensures beneath the regulation. We will exercise our rights below numerous provisions of the law, combat a political and criminal conflict, and even go to court. We have many options,” Mr Reddy said.
Andhra Pradesh has proposed the Polavaram Banakacherla Link Project to link Godavari waters at Polavaram thru Bollepalli in Guntur and Banakacherla in Kurnool with the Krishna basin thru Penna river. They have claimed that they could switch 200 TMC of extra water from the Godavari that flows into the sea to offer water to the drought-prone Rayalaseema location.
Mr Reddy said if Mr Naidu additionally believed, like KCR, that 3,000 TMC extra water is to be had inside the Godavari, then Andhra Pradesh must haven’t any trouble in giving NOC for full utilisation of 968 TMC already allotted to Telangana after which use some thing excess waters is available.
“Instead, Andhra Pradesh has raised objections to almost every single challenge deliberate via Telangana, developing barriers of their final touch,” Mr Reddy stated.
Taking on the alternative Telugu state and challenging its chief who was at one point leader to Mr Reddy as well, is predicted to win brownie points for Mr Reddy, who can be hoping to be visible as a champion of Telangana, willing to take on a protracted-time political companion, who his critics name his guru.
The chief minister has proposed an all-birthday celebration delegation to Delhi to satisfy Union Minister for water assets to voice severe objections to the Banakacherla project proposed by using Andhra Pradesh, pointing out that it might cause an irrevocable loss to the hobbies of Telangana.
He sought to recognize why Union Minister from Telangana G Kishan Reddy had met the Union Minister today in place of attending the all-birthday party assembly convened in Hyderabad.
May 25, 2025