Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy is not diverting the Godavari water to the Krishna river wantonly, which is putting the farmers in the Krishna delta at risk, alleges TDP Sattenapalli Assembly Constituency in-charge and former Minister Kanna Lakshminarayana.
Addressing the media at his residence here on July 20 (Thursday), Mr. Lakshminarayana lashed out at the Chief Minister for not making use of the Pattiseema Lift Irrigation project to divert the water from the Godavari to the Krishna, particularly when the Polavaram irrigation project was not yet completed.
He said that former Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu had built the Pattiseema Lift Irrigation project to cater to the needs of the farmers across the districts until completion of the Polavaram project. “Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy is deliberately not using the lift irrigation project to avoid giving credit to Mr. Naidu,” he said.
