Won't let AP take even a drop of Telangana's water share: Congress
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Hyderabad: Telangana Congress president B Mahesh Kumar Goud on Friday said that the state govt will not allow the Andhra Pradesh to take even a drop of Telangana's deserving water share from the Godavari through the Banakacherla project.
Addressing the media after his padayatra in the Andole assembly constituency, Mahesh Goud accused former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and former irrigation minister T Harish Rao of mortgaging the interests of Telangana to Andhra by allowing the neighbouring state to take up the Banakacherla project.
"Is it not KCR and Harish whose signatures during the previous BRS govt allowed AP to take up the Banakacherla project? On the other hand, the Congress govt led by chief minister A Revanth Reddy and irrigation minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy took up the issue with the Centre, Union Jal Shakti Ministry, central water commission, and Godavari River Management Board, and successfully stopped the AP from going ahead further with works on the Banakacherla project," he said.
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The TPCC president also made it clear that the padayatra was taken up by him following directions from the AICC leadership. "AICC in charge of Telangana Meenakshi Natarajan is participating in the padayatra as chief guest. The yatra will continue after our return from New Delhi to pursue with President Droupadi Murmu the BC reservation bills pending with her. CM Revanth and other ministers too will participate in the padayatra in future as chief guests," he said.
During his padayatra, the TPCC chief listed all the welfare schemes being implemented by the Congress govt, including over 60,000 govt jobs given to the youth in just 18 months. "The Congress govt has stopped the supply of coarse rice through fair price shops and is giving fine rice free of cost to all the poor in the state," he said.
Meenakshi takes dig at RSS
AICC in-charge of Telangana Meenakshi Natarajan said that while the Congress works for the welfare of the people, RSS does it with an ulterior motive. She called upon the party cadres to work to know the problems of the people and bring them to the notice of the govt for solutions. She was speaking at a party workers' meeting in Andole during the padayatra.
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