Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, particularly its national vice-president and in-charge of party affairs in Karnataka D.K. Aruna, have no moral right to speak on the interests of farmers under Rajolibanda Diversion Scheme (RDS) ayacut in Telangana, Minister for Finance and Health T. Harish Rao said here on Saturday.
Mr. Harish Rao alleged that Ms. Aruna was silent when Rayalaseema leaders such as Byreddy Rajasekhar Reddy and Y. Balanagi Reddy went along with their supporters and damaged the sluices of RDS anicut to prevent flow of water to Telangana and she was in Congress then.
It was also Ms. Aruna, as a minister in the Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy Cabinet, who performed puja for siphoning off Krishna water to non-basin areas with the help of expansion of Pothireddypadu head regulator and projects such as Handri-Neeva, heaping injustice on Telangana by denying it rightful share in the river water, he said.
