Hyderabad, July 07: The deeds of the `mining mafia’ headed by Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy and AP Congress leaders’ `collusion’ with him are the main weapons in the TDP’s arsenal for the monsoon session of the Assembly beginning tomorrow.
That apart, the main opposition party also wants to harp on the Babhali project issue since byelections are round the corner in Telangana.
It wants to argue that it was the government’s inaction that emboldened the Maharashtra government to go ahead with the illegal construction.
The party is also planning to corner the Congress on the government’s handling of the Krishna river waters issue in the Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal, which led to the order not requiring a resurvey of the height of the Almatti dam on the Krishna in Karnataka.
“The Congress seems to be in a hurry to rush through the session. We will try to expose the party and its government,” TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu told mediapersons after the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) meeting of the Assembly in the chambers of speaker N Kiran Kumar Reddy.
The party is keen on having better floor coordination with all the opposition parties so that public issues are debated at length. He also noted that some non-ruling parties have moved closer to the Congress since the last session.
Naidu said there were several pressing issues like the steep increase in the prices of essential commodities, poor implementation of welfare schemes, illegal construciton of projects on the Krishna and Godavari by neighbouring states and the NREGS scam.
–Agencies