Pulling Out Plea In SC Part Of Revanth Plans To Hand River Water To AP On A Platter: Harish
“The state government fully knowing that a writ petition will not be accepted by the Supreme Court, still went ahead with it and in the process, committed grave injustice to Telangana”: Harish Rao
HYDERABAD: The BRS on Monday accused the Congress state government of adopting deliberate strategies to help Andhra Pradesh move ahead with its plans to build the Polavaram-Nallamalasagar link project. Senior BRS leader T. Harish Rao called the state attempting to file a writ petition in the Supreme Court on the matter “yet another instance” of such acts by the state government.
Harish Rao, in a statement, said “the state government fully knowing that a writ petition will not be accepted by the Supreme Court, still went ahead with it and in the process, committed grave injustice to Telangana.” Asking if this fact was not known to Abhishek Manu Singhivi, Congress MP and senior counsel hired by the state government to file the petition, Harish Rao said “just for this, irrigation minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy went to Delhi.’
He said government informing the court that it would withdraw its writ petition and file a civil suit was proof that the Chief Minister Revanth Reddy government had deliberately planned this move to give Andhra Pradesh more time to make its own moves on the project. “A civil suit will take a long time as it is not just AP and Telangana, even Karnataka and Maharashtra will have to be heard in the matter. In the meanwhile, AP will complete its project and take away water that rightfully belongs to Telangana,” he said.
“This is a Sankranti gift to AP from Revanth Reddy to AP Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu. All that Revanth is interested in is to hand all the river waters to AP on a platter even as the AP government has objected to and fighting against every project of Telangana on both Krishna and Godavari rivers. The BRS will not keep quiet and will expose the Congress governement’s plans, Harish Rao said.