Since the Krishna basin covers 70 per cent of Telangana and 30 per cent of Andhra Pradesh, the Chief Minister appealed to Patil to allocate 70 per cent of Krishna water to the Telangana State
The population of BCs is followed by the Scheduled Castes (17.43 per cent), Scheduled Tribes (10.45%), Backward Classes among Muslims (10.08%) and Other Castes (13.31%)
Senior party leader Vinod Kumar says the Irrigation Minister's statements blaming the BRS regime for the State's deprival of its due water share, smacked of ignorance of former Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao's vision