HYDERABAD, MAY 28:
Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) President and Chief Minister-designate of Telangana K Chandrasekhara Rao (KCR) has called for a bandh on Thursday in protest against the reported moves by the Centre to hand over seven mandals in Khammam district to the residuary Andhra Pradesh.
He alleged that the Centre was planning to bring an Ordinance in this regard to remove hurdles for Andhra Pradesh in completing the Polavaram project.
Telangana leaders have been demanding that the design for the project must be tweaked to reduce inundation of some tribal areas.
Several Telangana groups have expressed support to the bandh call given by the TRS President.
National project
The Andhra Pradesh Re-Organisation Bill, passed by the last of Parliament sessions in the UPA regime, has accorded national status to the project.
"It is hereby declared that it is expedient in the public interest that the Union should take under its control the regulation and development of the Polavaram Irrigation Project for the purposes of irrigation," the Bill said.
"The consent for Polavaram Irrigation Project shall be deemed to have been given by the successor State of Telangana. The Central Government shall execute the project and obtain all requisite clearances," it said.
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