Release Nagarjuna Sagar Water, Warns KTR, Congress Hits Back

BRS Working President K T Rama Rao on Thursday said he would undertake a padayatra from Kodad to Haliya with thousands of farmers if the Telangana government failed to announce a schedule for releasing water into the Nagarjuna Sagar Left Canal by September 14. 

Alleging that the Congress government was withholding water from the Left Canal despite around 180 TMC being available in the Nagarjuna Sagar project, Rama Rao, also known as KTR, said farmers were anxious about their crops.

He recalled that his father and BRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao had undertaken a



similar padayatra (foot march) from Kodad to Haliya in Nalgonda district in 2003 in support of farmers dependent on the Left Canal, successfully pressuring the then government to resolve their water woes. He said he was prepared to launch a similar agitation now.

Addressing an event in Miryalguda in Nalgonda district on Thursday evening, KTR said the Nagarjuna Sagar command area, which had flourished under the BRS government and contributed significantly to Telangana's agricultural growth, was facing a severe crisis, leaving farmers across the Left Canal command area uncertain about water for their crops.