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Brijesh tribunal reserves verdict
After protracted hearing of the arguments of all the four States involved in Krishna water dispute, the Brijesh Kumar Tribunal here on Thursday reserved its judgment on whether the dispute is to be treated as an inter-State dispute or a dispute between Telangana and AP.
​New Delhi: After protracted hearing of the arguments of all the four States involved in Krishna water dispute, the Brijesh Kumar Tribunal here on Thursday reserved its judgment on whether the dispute is to be treated as an inter-State dispute or a dispute between Telangana and AP.
All the four States continued their arguments in the Tribunal here on Thursday with AP and Telangana insisting on a four-State approach and Maharashtra and Karnataka maintaining that the dispute should be settled between the two Telugu States. The Tribunal is set to disclose the judgment after three weeks.
Section 89 of the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014, was the contentious issue with AP and Telangana, maintaining that it should be interpreted in the light of the Krishna basin States and not just as a dispute between the two. Project-wise allocation of waters would lead to injustice to the Telugu States and the Centre had kept all these issues in the mind while drafting the Reorganisation Act.
Karnataka objected to the same, questioning the silence of Telangana political parties or people in not approaching either the Supreme Court or the Tribunal much earlier than 2014 as bifurcation was always in the air and the then ruling party had gone ahead and announced the statehood in 2009 itself.
Article 4 of the Constitution and Section 89 of the Reorganisation Act should not be clubbed or read with in deciding the issue, it argued demanding the status quo. It said the two Telugu States should share the waters as per the existing allocation and other States must not be dragged into the dispute.
