Telangana Assembly to fight dam fiat

Hyderabad: Taking on the Centre, the TRS government has decided to adopt a resolution in the Assembly asking the BJP-led NDA government to scrap the Ordinance merging the seven mandals of Khammam district with Andhra Pradesh, under the Polavaram Irrigation project. Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has given a green signal for the resolution in the Assembly on June 14, the last day of the present session of the Assembly and the same was listed in  the BAC meet.

The TRS government will move three resolutions in the Assembly on Saturday — one paying tributes to Telangana martyrs, the second paying homage to the 24 engineering students who were washed away in Himachal Pradesh and the third resolution asking the Centre to withdraw Polavaram ordinance.

“The Assembly session will continue for three more days. Tomorrow, there will be  an announcement on deputy Speaker election followed by members’ greetings to the deputy Speaker. Later, there will be a discussion and motion of thanks to the Governor’s address. “We will stop Polavaram Ordinance politically and legally. The Ordinance is unconstitutional and unjustified,” he remarked.

Stating that the Congress has no moral right to talk about it since its UPA government had moved the Ordinance and the TD  backed it with the support of the BJP, Mr  Rajender said the TRS government would use all means to stop the Ordinance and force Prime Minister Narendra Modi to convene a meeting of Chief Ministers of concerned states — AP, Telangana and Odisha.