BRS activists stage cricket protest in bone-dry SRSP canal in Karimnagar

Choppadandi MLA Sunke Ravishankar warned that they would stage a dharna along with farmers if the state government failed to give water within four days.

Karimnagar: BRS activists staged an innovative protest by playing cricket in the dried-up Sri Ram Sagar Project (SRSP) canal near Kothapalli on Wednesday.

To register their protest against the anti-farmers policies of the Congress government, BRS workers led by former Choppadandi MLA Sunke Ravishankar played cricket in SRSP canal.

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Speaking on the occasion, Ravishankar said that when K Chandrashekhar Rao was the Chief Minister, water was pumped upstream through lift irrigation schemes by constructing the Kaleshwaram project. Later, water was shifted to Lower Manair Dam, Mallannasagar, and Kondapochammasagar through the flood flow canal.

Though there was an opportunity to draw water, the government was not utilising it. As a result, a huge quantity of water is flowing downstream unused, as pumps are not being operated by the government.

Farmers and people were facing troubles for irrigation and drinking water, he said and warned that they would stage a dharna along with farmers if the state government failed to give water within four days.

Earlier, Ravishankar gave a representation to the Collector Pamela Satpathy requesting her to supply water to agricultural fields in his Choppadandi constituency. He wanted the administration to fill various water bodies in the segment by lifting Kaleshwaram water.