Telangana Jagruti President and BRS MLC Kalvakuntla Kavitha has demanded that the Revanth Reddy government should merge the Polavaram flooded villages merged in Andhra Pradesh back into Telangana. She has asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss this issue in the meeting to be held by the Chief Ministers of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Odisha on the 25th of this month under the Pragathi Agenda.
To this end, participating as the chief guest in the round table meeting on Polavaram Telangana – Flood Wall organized by Telangana Jagruti on Friday, she said that the people of Purushothapatnam, Gundala, Ettapaka, Kannayagudem and Pichukalapaka villages merged in AP are facing severe difficulties due to discrimination between the two states.
She said that only by increasing the height of the embankments will the five villages be protected in the future. Otherwise, she expressed concern that all the villages will be submerged if there are heavy floods. She said that Polavaram has caused permanent flooding in the Bhadrachalam area. She cautioned that increasing the Polavaram spillway capacity to 50 lakh cusecs will create a backwater problem for Telangana and that the Bhadrachalam Rama temple is in danger of being submerged.
Kavitha said that while the Bhadrachalam Sri Rama temple is in Telangana, the thousand-acre property related to the temple is in Andhra Pradesh. She expressed her concern that the property of God is being alienated due to lack of care there. She demanded the Andhra Pradesh government to protect the property of God.
She suggested that the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana governments should conduct a joint survey on the Polavaram flooding. She demanded that Chief Minister Revanth Reddy pressure the central government to rejoin the five villages in Telangana. She warned that she would fight a legal battle on this issue.
Kavitha recalled that Telangana Jagruti had approached the Supreme Court in an attempt to stop the Polavaram project in the combined state. In 2014, Prime Minister Modi was criticized for passing an ordinance to merge seven mandals into AP in his first cabinet meeting and doing injustice.
She was furious that seven mandals were unfairly merged into AP and that the Lower Sileru power project was also given to AP. She accused Chandrababu of taking seven mandals by doing backdoor politics. She said that this was against the Bifurcation Act and the spirit of the Constitution. She said that they had raised their voice in Parliament then, and BRS party members spoke in Parliament, but Congress members acted as if nothing had happened that day.