Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao took a trip to the corridors of power in New Delhi on Friday to visit Union Interior Minister Amit Shah and Union Minister Jal Shakti Gajendra Singh Shekhawat. He is also expected to visit Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday.
Rao is believed to have urged Shah to release Disaster Management Funds for flood-affected Hyderabad during a 40-minute interaction with the interior minister, in addition to discussing other state-related issues.
He reminded Shah that the state government had requested immediate relief of Rs 1,350 million for losses suffered by the state due to heavy rains and had submitted a report on it.
Rao left for New Delhi on a special flight from Begumpet Airport on Friday afternoon on a three-day visit to the national capital.
Previously, Rao met with Shekhawat for an hour and asked him to allow to increase the lifting capacity of the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation system from 2 TMC to 3 TMC per day from the Godavari River. He also spoke about irrigation projects in Telangana state.
It should be recalled here that the Center had recently imposed conditions through the Krishna River Water Management Board that all projects in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana state should go ahead only after submitting detailed project reports and also after of the approval of the Apex Council headed by Jal Shakti. Minister.
Sources noted that Rao, after explaining the progress of the Kaleshwaram Elevation Irrigation Project, applied for an early authorization to increase the lifting capacity. Sources revealed that Rao also opposed the AP government’s Rayalaseema lift irrigation project to divert water from the Srisailam reservoir to Rayalaseema.
Rao is also expected to meet with Union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman, Nitin Gadkari and Hardeep Puri on Saturday to discuss long-pending issues related to the state with them.
He is expected to return to Hyderabad on Sunday. Although the TRS claimed that Prime Minister Rao’s visit to Delhi was to discuss matters with the Union ministers and the Prime Minister, opposition parties, including Congress and the BJP, alleged that Rao had a hidden agenda to meet. with the interior minister and the prime minister.
On his first day, Rao is said to have limited his visits to Union ministers and, after meeting with the Prime Minister, he will likely meet peasant leaders who are campaigning against the Center’s Agricultural Laws in Delhi.
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