KCR to chair BRSLP, party’s state executive meet on Dec. 19

HYDERABAD

A joint meeting of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Legislature Party and the State executive will be held at the party headquarters on December 19.

To be chaired by the party president and former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, the meeting is expected to discuss various issues affecting/harming the interests of Telangana, particularly the neglect of the State’s river water rights when the neighbouring States are going ahead with the projects in violation of the riparian rights of Telangana.

According to the office of the BRS chief, Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao is of the view that the Congress Government had completely failed in stopping Andhra Pradesh’s efforts to utilise Krishna and Godavari water indiscriminately, beyond the allocations made by Tribunals and harming the interests of Telangana. The meeting is expected to chart out a movement to protect the river water rights of Telangana.

Mr. Rao is also critical of the Congress Government's plea to the Centre to allow it to utilise 45 tmc ft water first for irrigation needs under the Palamuru-Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme (PRLIS) against the plans of the previous BRS Government to utilise 91 tmc ft water. Unfortunately, even the 8 MPs of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had failed to raise voice for the water rights of Telangana.

Indeed, it was the BJP that was supporting the efforts of other states to violate the water rights of Telangana by allowing their irrigation projects, undermining the riparian rights of the parched tracts of Telangana. Mr Rao blamed the BJP for pushing the interlinking of Godavari with Penna and Cauvery, when the in-basin lands in Telangana were being denied water.

Mr. Rao is of the belief that it would be the path of struggles that would protect the interests of Telangana from the attempts of betrayers to mortgage them to the neighbouring States.