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Congress not against new projects says Shabbir Ali
Shabbir Ali accused the TRS leaders of misleading the people by making false claims. He said that the projects took up by the TRS government were in fact, started and designed by the previous Congress government when they were in power from 2004 to 2014.
Nizamabad: Congress Party leader in the Legislative Council Mohammad Shabbir Ali alleged that the TRS leaders were going ahead with the Mallanna project only to benefit the contractors. Speaking to the media in the town on Sunday, he said that the farmers would not get even 50 TMC of water if the Mallanna project was completed.
Shabbir Ali accused the TRS leaders of misleading the people by making false claims. He said that the projects took up by the TRS government were in fact, started and designed by the previous Congress government when they were in power from 2004 to 2014.
In the name of constructing new projects, the TRS government was trying to instigate the people against each other by creating differences. The Congress was demanding that justice be done to the farmers of submerged villages due to the Mallanna project, he added.
The Congress leader said that it was wrong on the part of the Irrigation Minister T Harish Rao to blame the Opposition parties for creating hurdles in the completion of the projects.
He said that the Congress designed 45 lakh plans on the Pranahita-Chevella project to irrigate 16 lakh acres of land and also spent Rs 10 crore when it was in power for ten years. In the name of redesigning the projects, the TRS leaders were making money illegally, he lamented.
He lashed out at the TRS leaders for taking the signatures of farmers on blank papers and taking away their lands. They were behaving like brokers, he alleged.
Shabbir Ali reiterated that the Congress was not against taking up of new irrigation projects if it they were useful to the farmers in making their lands fertile.
