Kiran sings U-tune again
HYDERABAD: Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy reiterated that he was opposing the state's bifurcation as serious problems like water, jobs, education, health and Hyderabad would crop up.
'I am not opposing the bifurcation for political reasons,' the chief minister told a group of farmers, who called on him at his camp office on Friday.
'I wanted that the state should be united as problems will arise, especially the farmers will face serious problems. I am not opposing the division for the sake of political reasons,' he added.
The 433-km Krishna river would be the border for Telangana and Seemandhra. 'It is a very typical state that on one side of the river Telangana will be located and on the other side Seemandhra will be located. Such a situation is not there anywhere in the country,' the chief minister told the farmers.
Rayalaseema and Andhra farmers would lose irrigation water heavily post-division, he said. Around 100 farmers from Seemandhra called on Kiran Reddy and requested him to keep the state united.
The chief minister told them that the farmers would be benefited if Krishna and Godavari basins were in one state. This was confirmed by the Fazal Ali Commission, he added.
The allocated water from Tungabhadra were not released to the state as the dam was situated in Karnataka, Kiran Reddy said. Though the Tungabhadra dam was under control of Central Water Commission, injustice was being done to Kurnool, Mahabubnagar and Anantapur districts, he contended.
The completion of ongoing irrigation projects too would be difficult and the Central government could not complete them, he said.
News Posted: 12 October, 2013
|
