Warrangal, August 29: Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao called upon the rural folk to become partners in the movement for separate State.
Rao, who made a night stay at Gurijala in Chennaraopet mandal on Thursday night as part of his Palle Nidra programme, completed his ablutions early Friday morning and interacted with the villagers in a meeting.
He toured the streets in the village and asked the people about their problems. He urged them to become partners in the Telangana movement.
Accusing the State Government of looting the resources of Telangana, he said the water of rivers Krishna and Godavari were being diverted to Andhra. “In the name of projects, Telanganites are being cheated and water is being diverted to other regions,’’ he alleged and added that it was unfair as one would be able to strike water by digging 10-feet deep in Andhra but will have to go for 500- 600 feet for obtaining water in Telangana.
The Open Cast projects taken up in Karimnagar and Adilabad districts are causing health problems to the nearby people. People of 24 villages have migrated to other places in search of jobs, he said. The coal from Telangana, the TRS chief alleged, is being shifted to Andhra and the former is being turned into a desert.
The TRS president targeted Chief Minister throughout his Palle Nidra programme — at the media conferences and in gram sabhas as well.
Rajasekhara Reddy has changed his stance on Telangana after elections, Rao said.
Reminding that three Cabinet meets were held before the polls, Rao lamented that anti-Telangana decisions were taken in all the meets.
The chief minister had said that irrigation would be provided through canals under all the projects in Telangana before polls but after the elections, he has directed officials to provide for only micro irrigation under all the new projects, Rao pointed out. But the farmers in Andhra are being provided water through canals for both the crops, he said.
The TRS chief donated Rs 1.50 lakh from the party fund for a drinking water borewell in the Dalitwada of the village.
He directed Narsampet tahsildar on the phone to acquire land for the construction of a community hall in the village.
During his visit to the Bama Naik thanda nearby the village, he contributed Rs 1 lakh from the party fund for diigging an irrigation borewells in the place. He asked the ITDA project director to look into the works.
Former MP B Vinod Kumar, party district unit president P Sudarshan Reddy, former MLA B Rajaiah and others accompanied him.
–Agencies–