It looks like the Polavaram dam is going to become the main issue and the election plank for Telangana in the coming elections. The AP Government has raised the height of the dam overnight in the name of floods.
The Telangana Ministers say that this goes against the interest of the Telangana people. Andhra Ministers say that it was done after technical evaluation.
Now the AP Ministers are demanding that Bhadrachalma must be handed over to AP. Minister Botsa Satyanarayana is demanding a united Andhra so that the income levels would be balanced.
On the other hand, the Telangana ministers demanded that the seven Mandals merged into Andhra Pradesh and that the five villages next to Bhadrachalam should be merged into Telangana.
“Those five villages will be far away from AP. The central government should think about this. They should table a bill in the parliament and merge the five villages into Telangana,” he added.
Minister Ajay reminded, that they have requested many times to reduce the height of Polavaram. Telangana Rashtra Samiti always wants some anti-Andhra issue for the elections.
It looks like TRS wants to make Polavaram an election issue. But the AP Minister Botsa Satyanarayana went on to say they will also start demanding United Andhra Pradesh and Hyderabad if that is the case.
