KCR to hold meeting on Feb 13, oppose Congress stand on Krishna waters sharing

Hyderabad: BRS president K Chandrashekar Rao announced that he will fight against the Congress government’s stand on handing over the outlets of Srisailam and Nagarjunasagar projects to the Krishna River Management Board.

On Tuesday, on his first visit to the Telangana Bhavan after surgery, he held a meeting with BRS MLAs, former ministers, public representatives and leaders from the River Krishna Basin area on the issue.

KCR said that the party will hold a public meeting in Nalgonda on February 13 and will start a fight to protect Telangana’s rights over Krishna River waters and is willing to fight till their aim is achieved.

‘Congress jeopardising water rights to Telangana’

“The responsibility of BRS activists and Telangana movement fighters is to ensure that the rights are not disturbed,” said KCR. KCR clarified that under the BRS party, the government has not only fought for Telangana irrigation and drinking water rights in the Telangana movement but also took the movement to the people.

“The ill-advised attitude and approach of the Telangana Congress government is jeopardising the right to irrigation water of farmers in the state, especially those from south Telangana,” KCR said.

Claiming that the decisions of the Congress government would lead to drinking water shortage in Rangareddy, erstwhile Nalgonda, erstwhile Khammam and erstwhile Mahbubnagar districts, KCR said that the party would lead a public movement to make Congress change their decision on handing over the projects to KRMB.