Telangana CM KCR attacks Centre, BJP for not deciding state's share in Krishna river water
NDA government at the Centre for not deciding the share of Telangana in Krishna river waters, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday said people should question the BJP leaders on the matter. He was speaking at a public meeting at Kollapur in Nagarkurnool district after inaugurating the Palamuru Rangareddy Lift scheme.
He took exception to some BJP activists allegedly running behind his bus when he was coming for the inauguration of the project and the public meeting.
He hit out at the NDA government for not taking steps to determine Telangana's share in Krishna river waters since it came to power in 2014.
In a blistering attack, he claimed that BJP leaders from the undivided Mahabubnagar district should go to Delhi and take up with PM Narendra Modi for referring the matter of Telangana's share to the Krishna tribunal if they «have any sense of shame».
«We asked for water.
We said, Narendra Modi, you decide how much share our Palamuru (another name for Mahabubnagar) and Telangana will get in Krishna river. We should get (our share) as per Constitution and law.
We have to build Palamuru lift irrigation,» he said.
«But, the Prime Minister who claims to be 'Vishwaguru', the BJP and the leaders and activists, there are so many of them in Mahabubnagar district. Does it take 10 years?» Rao, also known as KCR, said.
All that the Centre has to do is to write to the Krishna tribunal to distribute water between the two states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, he claimed.
«But, Modi does not respond to it,» he said.
The Telangana government had gone to the Supreme Court for determination of its share in Krishna water but the Centre asked it to withdraw the case promising to refer the matter to the tribunal.
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