City legislators get restive again

TNN / Dec 26, 2005, 02:41 IST

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11 passed a resolution asking state govt to keep GO 170 in abeyance as it turned the tap on for Rayalaseema, as a result of which Hy'bad's water supply might get affected.

HYDERABAD: The government's move to paper over the queries challenging its order to divert more Krishna flood water to Rayalaseema has again had Hyderabad MPs and MLAs asking yet more uncomfortable questions.
A ginger group of city MLAs and MPs calling itself the Forum of City MPs and MLAs, fired yet another salvo at the state government on Sunday by asking it to keep in abeyance GO 170 which increases the capacity of the Pothireddipadu head regulator as well as the GO 233, which, they said, only pretends to undo the mischief planned by the former.
Forum convenor M Shashidhar Reddy said the fresh order (GO 233, dated Dec 19) did not redress the apprehensions raised during their earlier meeting on Dec. 11.
The group of City Congress legislators and MPs, supported by all parties, had on Dec. 11 passed a resolution asking the state government to keep GO 170 in abeyance as it turned the tap on for Rayalaseema, as a result of which Hyderabad's water supply might get affected.

Shashidhar Reddy said irrigation experts who read the latest GO have inferred that it was no different from the previous order and left scope for several new queries. MLAs who attended the meeting asked the government to keep both orders in abeyance as they only added to the confusion.
They said GO 233 read with GO 170 allowed diversion of flood waters of the river Krishna to Rayalaseema, but did not address certain doubts raised by Telangana leaders. The meeting was critical of the government's handling of the all-party meeting on the issue last week.

A senior legislator said, "When the government decided to have its way on the issue, why did it convene an all-party meeting?" Congress Rajya Sabha MP V Hanumanatha Rao, MLAs M Shashidhar Reddy and P Janardhan Reddy, TRS MLAs T Padma Rao, N Narsimha Reddy, MIM legislator Akbaruddin Owaisi, TDP MLA D Sayanna, irrigation expert R Vidyasagar Rao and environmentalist J Rama Rao were present at the meeting.
Congress MP Anjan Kumar Yadav, legislators K Mukesh and M Ranga Reddy stayed way from the meeting, lest they invite the wrath of PCC president K Keshava Rao.

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