Hyderabad, January 4: The all-party meeting held at the residence of the TDP chief, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, on Monday evening decided to demand that the permission accorded by the Krishna Water Tribunal to Karnataka to raise the height of the Almatti dam be scrapped.
The meeting also decided to fight for retention of the right of Andhra Pradesh to surplus waters as it was having that right till now. The meeting passed two resolutions to demanding these two things.
The meeting was attended by representatives of the TDP, CPI, CPI (M), New Democracy and Lok Satta parties.
The meeting felt that the late chief minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy had appointed an inefficient lawyer to represent the State and because of the ineffective arguments of the State’s counsel, Andhra Pradesh was denied of its rights over surplus Krishna waters. The meeting also alleged that the Union government and the Tribunal had colluded to render injustice to the State. Leaders of the Opposition parties have decided to bring pressure on the Centre to concede the State’s rights over the surplus waters and the demand for withdrawal of permission given to Karnataka to raise Almatti height.
The meeting has expressed fears that the Krishna delta would turn into a desert as there would be no inflows into the Nagarjuna Sagar reservoir if the height of the Almatti dam was permitted.
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