Leaders of opposition parties and farmer unions on Wednesday called for a united struggle cutting across party lines to protect the riparian rights of Andhra Pradesh at a time when the Centre issued a gazette notification for redistribution of the Krishna waters with a view to allegedly gain political mileage in poll-bound Telangana.
Chairing a roundtable conference to unite the farmers cutting across party lines for a protracted struggle to assert the rightful share of Andhra Pradesh of 512 tmc ft decided by the Brijesh Kumar tribunal and that of Telangana of 299 tmc ft, Communist Party of India(CPI) State Secretariat memmber G. Eshwaraiah said drought would be a recurrent feature if the present allocation of the Krishna waters was altered to the detriment of the lower riparian State.
