TDP ignoring Rayalaseema interests : YSRCP

Hyderabad, April 22 , 2015: Deploring the Governments of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for indiscriminately drawing water from Srisailam, YSR Congress has said the TDP should complete all the pending irrigation projects in Rayalaseema before taking up Pattiseema besides working for an all-round development of the State and not to concentrate on any one particular region.   “Leader of Opposition, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has predicted the situation of Srisailam drying up much earlier and has written letter to the Chief Minister but his foresight was ignored and Rayalaseema is turning into a desert with both the Government drawing water indiscriminately without maintaining the minimum required water level,” Party MLA SV Mohan Reddy told reporters here. Though Chandrababu Naidu has been showering concern for Rayalaseema by celebrating his birthday in the region, his allocations to the pending projects of Galeru Nagari, Handri Neeva and Pothireddypadu have been very scanty. These are the projects nearing completion but still TDP Government has not allotted the required funds. Unless these projects are completed the proposed Pattiseema project has no meaning and water cannot be flown to the arid Rayalaseema without adequate storage facilities, he said. “His concern for Rayalaseema has no meaning without completing the pending projects which are nearing completion. He failed in talking to the Telangana Chief Minister on drawing Srisailam water and his Pattiseema talk has no meaning,” the Kurnool MLA said.