The slanging match between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh over utilisation of Krishna river water and generation of power intensified today with the latter saying that the "rogue state behaviour" of Telangana should not be encouraged.
The Andhra Pradesh government also asked its new neighbour to stop its "political game" and co-operate in better utilisation of Krishna river water to protect the interests of farmers in both the states.
The Chandrababu Naidu government said it wanted the Telangana government to abide by the AP Reorganisation Act and also relevant government orders (GOs) on maintaining minimum water level at Srisailam reservoir to meet irrigation and drinking water requirements in the two states.
The ongoing dispute between the two states will come up for hearing before the Krishna River Management Board at a meeting here on October 29 though the AP government has already presented its case to Governor E S L Narasimhan as also to the Board.
Dubbing the claims of Telangana government over utilisation of Krishna river water and generation of power as "welter of lies", AP Irrigation Minister Devineni Umamaheswara Rao and Communications Advisor Parakala Prabhakar dared the former to file a case against AP government in Supreme Court on the issue.
"Already the Telangana government has been rapped by the Supreme Court in several cases in the last four months. Does it want to get rapped again," they asked.
Rebutting the claims of Telangana Irrigation Minister T Harish Rao over utilisation of Krishna water and generation of power, Parakala said, "The Telangana ministers have started a daily serial of blatant lies. One minister is not repeating the lies blurted out by the other. Moreover, each one is coming up with contradictory lies, day after day."
Mocking at Harish's claim that GO No 233 (in December 2005) was issued superseding GO 107 (in September 2004), Parakala sarcastically said that Harish could not even differentiate between 107 and 170.
"GO 233 has no connection whatsoever with GOs 69 and 107 that regulate use of water at Srisailam reservoir. Which GOs, and in which language, is Harish reading," the Communications Advisor said.
