Meet calls for coordinated effort to get Krishna water for Rayalaseema

Speakers flay KCR’s charge of excess drawal by A.P.

The members of civil society in Anantapur district on Saturday decided to work in a coordinated manner with all political parties to protect the right of Rayalaseema people over the Krishna water and ensure that the 122 tmcft allocated to the region is brought here without any hurdles. At a round-table conference here at the NGO Home, MLC Vennapoosa Gopal Reddy along with Besta Corporation director K.V. Ramana gave a call to all the political parties to come together to fight for the rights of the region by opposing the Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s statements that Andhra Pradesh was drawing more than its allocation at a time when Telangana was producing power wasting the precious water reserves in the Srisailam reservoir meant for drinking and agricultural needs. Mr. Gopal Reddy said it was due to the Jala Yagnam initiative of Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy that the Rayalaseema region was getting some water and the stand taken by Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy had been appreciated by all in the current dispute over Krishna waters. “The role of national parties in this dispute is important so that everything is settled amicably,” Mr. Gopal Reddy said.