Water politics start again between two telugu states. telangana chief minister k chandrashekar rao said that the government would launch legal action against andhra pradesh if it builds a lift irrigation project to divert water from the srisailam dam to Rayalaseema. The srisailam project is shared by telangana and Andhra Pradesh. But ap government wants to expand the canals from Pothireddypadu reservoir.
Issue turns to be political in two states. As per the latest GO from ap, the new schemes proposed by the ap government include construction of rayalaseema lift scheme aimed at pumping three tmc of water from Sangameshwara into srisailam Right Main Canal, up gradation of Pothireddypadu head regulator canal system to draw 80,000 cusecs of water from foreshore of srisailam reservoir and other up gradation various works in existing canal system of Galeru-Nagari project to draw another 70,000 cusecs of water from Srisailam.
ap bjp leaders request telangana government not to involve in the issue where as telangana bjp asked ap government to withdraw the GO. telangana bjp lashed out ruling trs government and telangana congress leaders said that there was mutual understanding between trs and YSRCP. In whole episode, tdp maintains silent. congress PARTY' target='_blank' title='ysrcp-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>ysrcp wants to drag tdp into the issue and wants to prove tdp is against to Rayalaseema. During tdp era krishna water released through Pothireddypadu to Rayalaseem districts. Then sakshi telangana write against tdp government but the same thing is congress PARTY' target='_blank' title='ysrcp-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>ysrcp is doing now. Reportedly, to sideline the issues like increase in Corona cases in two states and vizag gas leak, two state governments raise the srisailam reservoir for their political interests.
