Hyderabad: People from village to city level are being forced to buy drinking water and incur additional expenditure. People from below the poverty line are the worst affected.
Ministers, MPs and MLAs are afraid to visit their constituencies and are remaining confined to Hyderabad most of the time as they are facing the wrath of locals who obstruct them, demanding water.
“Though drought is a natural calamity which is beyond our control, as a ruling party we have to face the consequences. Wherever we go, the major problem we are encountering from the public is about lack of drinking water.
We have funds to supply water but there is no water to procure. The atmosphere is not at all suitable to conduct yatras now and meet people who are furious over lack of drinking water. The same was conveyed to the CM, requesting him to put off the yatra till monsoon sets in June,” said a TRS MLA from Mahbubnagar.
