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Police deny permission to agitators, farmers
The police on Monday denied permission to farmers besides representatives of the Siddeswaram Project Sadhana Samiti and the Rayalaseema Joint Action Committee (JAC) to take up ‘bhoomi puja’ on the banks of the Krishna for the project which, they contend, will provide relief to drought-hit Rayalaseema.
Atmakur: The police on Monday denied permission to farmers besides representatives of the Siddeswaram Project Sadhana Samiti and the Rayalaseema Joint Action Committee (JAC) to take up ‘bhoomi puja’ on the banks of the Krishna for the project which, they contend, will provide relief to drought-hit Rayalaseema.
Resort to house arrest of JAC leaders and farmers from Kadapa, Anantapur, and Chittoor
The police clamped Section 144 (ban orders) and resorted to house arrest of the Samiti leaders, DSP Supraja told The Hans India on Monday night. She said the ban orders would be in force with immediate effect. According to her, farmers and agitators and their vehicles would be stopped at Atmakur and not allowed to reach the spot.
Already, JAC leaders Bojja Dasarath Reddy, Bauman, Y N Reddy, and several farmers from Kadapa, Anantapur and Chittoor have been placed under house arrest since Sunday midnight, leading to tension. A Huge deployment of the police is expected on Tuesday morning to foil the attempts by about 10,000 farmers to perform the puja.
Meanwhile, Rayalaseema Porata Samiti (RPS) leader Byreddy Rajasekhar Reddy claimed on Monday that the governments of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana were opposed to the Siddeswaram project. He told the media at Sangameswaram that both the States had the equal right to use the Krishna water which is on the border of AP and Telangana.
He claimed that if the State built the project the Telangana government would raise objections. Reddy posed a question to the TDP leaders as to how they would counter the contention of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao that the Siddeswaram project was illegal, in response to the agitation in the State against some proposed irrigation projects in Telangana.
The RPS claimed that because of lack of awareness of the agitators the Telangana government would be able to illegally divert 125 tmcft of Srisailam backwaters for the benefit of the region.
