BRS to Approach SC on Banakacharla, Turncoat MLCs
Party to challenge AP project, also seek action against MLCs who joined Congress
Hyderabad: The BRS is learnt to have decided to approach the Supreme Court as part of its effort to stop Andhra Pradesh going ahead with the Polavaram (Godavari)-Banakacharla link project, with senior BRS leader and former irrigation minister T. Harish Rao reported to have consulted legal experts on this issue in New Delhi.
The BRS has been alleging that the Congress government in Telangana is tacitly allowing AP to go ahead with the project which, the Opposition party says, will have devastating consequences to Telangana’s Godavari river water.
The BRS is also learnt to be exploring the possibility of filing a petition in the Supreme Court seeking directions to disqualify its MLCs who joined the Congress. It may be recalled that following a similar petition on turncoat MLAs from BRS who joined the Congress, the Supreme Court recently gave the Speaker three months to take a decision on the matter.
The BRS, sources said, hoped that it would receive a similar direction from the court on the matter of its MLCs — Dande Vittal, Bhanu Prasad, B. Dayanand, Prabhakar Rao, Egge Mallesham and Basavaraju Saraiah — who joined the Congress and whose disqualification it has been seeking.
