BRS blames Congress govt. for allowing A.P. to draw huge water from Srisailam
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has criticized the Congress government in Telangana for allegedly allowing Andhra Pradesh to divert excessive water from the Srisailam reservoir. The BRS claims this diversion threatens the irrigation needs of local farmers.
Why it matters
Water rights and resource management are major points of political contention between neighboring Indian states, impacting agricultural stability.
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) accused the Congress Government in the State of destroying the farmers’ hopes of an assured crop this season in the name of El Nino conditions, while neighbouring Andhra Pradesh has been diverting water from the two common reservoirs to fill projects in the areas outside the Krishna Basin to ensure water for irrigation there.
Addressing a press conference here on Monday along with former legislators B. Harshavardhan Reddy, G. Jaipal Yadav, G. Kishore Kumar and others, former Minister S. Niranjan Reddy demanded that the government run the pumps of Kalwakurthy and Palamuru-Rangareddy lifts as also the ones based on the Jurala project to ensure at least one assured crop this year. He stated that Jurala would get up to 5,000 cusecs of regenerated water from Almatti and Narayanpur projects in Karnataka even if there was no release of water there.
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