KTR faults govt. for denying water to Jurala ayacut
Party leaders term it Govt. failure, when AP taking away water for its projects outside the basin
BRS leader K.T. Rama Rao criticized the Congress government in Telangana for denying water to farmers in the Jurala irrigation project. He claimed the government was misleading the farmers by withholding water from their crops, despite their protests. According to Mr. Rama Rao, out of 248 tmc ft of inflows into the Krishna Basin this year, Telangana had only used 28 tmc ft.
He vowed to hold the government accountable if any standing crop withers due to lack of water. Rama Rao also threatened a probe by a sitting judge into the properties of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, if they had acquired them illegally. Meanwhile, BRS leader T. Harish Rao questioned the Congress government's failure to provide Krishna water to Telangana's irrigation projects, while Andhra Pradesh was diverting water to projects outside the basin, such as in Kuppam, 738 km away.
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