The Telugu Desam president, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, on Wednesday said his party would continue to fight against the illegal Babhali structure till justice is done. Mr Naidu said, “I don’t know what instructions the Congress president, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, gave to the Maharastra chief minister, Mr Ashok Chavan, but the police beat us only after she talked to him. Without her instructions, the Maharashtra police would not have had the courage to beat us up?’’
He accused the Congress governments at the Centre and the state for the injustice meted out to Telangana by allowing construction across the Godavari obstructing flow of into AP.
Mr Naidu said, “Do we require a visa to visit Maharashtra? Are we not in India? Don’t we have freedom to visit places in other states?’’ Fuming at the Rosaiah government’s inaction, Mr Naidu said, “Maharashtra did not begin works on Babhali project as long as TD was in power. Babhali would not have been completed had TD been in power. Congress has to pay the price for the injustice.”
Mr Naidu alleged that the CM was only worried about saving his job.
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Maha, AP wait for SC hearing
Age Correspondent
New Delhi
As the controversy relating to the Babhali dam flared up with the visit of TDP leader Chandra Babu Naidu with his party MLAs to Maharashtra in a bid to go to the site of the barrage, the disputing states are now looking for next hearing of the case in the Supreme Court listed on August 10.
The Supreme Court in 2007 had permitted Maharashtra to go ahead with the construction of the 65 TMC capacity Bhabli barrage on Godavari but with a condition that the state authorities would not install any of the 13 proposed gates in the dam for releasing water till further order. Maharashtra was restrained from installing the gates to ensure that there was no “obstruction” in the free flow of water to Andhra Pradesh, opposing the construction. Andhra Pradesh had filed a suit against Maharashtra for restraining it from going ahead with the project on the ground that it would adversely affect Telengana region.