Seema Andhra will turn into Sahara

A part of the mammoth crowd listening to Smt. Sharmila during the public meeting at Ichchapuram that marked the end of her historic Maro Praja Prasthanam on Sunday.

Ichchapuram, Aug 5, 2013:  Expressing serious concern that Seema Andhra area would transform itself into another Sahara desert if Andhra Pradesh is divided, Smt. Y.S. Sharmila castigated the Congress leadership for unilaterally deciding on the division of the state for mere political considerations.

Addressing a sea of humanity on the conclusion of her historic Maro Praja Prasthanam Padayatra at Ichchapuram in Srikakulam district on Sunday, she said Congress bosses must recognize the fact that Seema Andhra people also have a right over Hyderabad city built over a period of 60 years.

She warned that Seema Andhra would turn into a desert with only sea water being left for the people to drink let alone think of irrigation water. “Knowing full well that Seema Andhra people will not have water even to drink if the state is divided, the congress leadership has resorted to this sin only for political considerations,” she remarked.

We are not getting water unless the Almatti and Narayanapur dams in Karnataka and other dams in Maharashtra are filled up, she said, posing a question how Sri Sailam and Nagarjuna Sagar dams would get water if the state is divided without solving the concerned issues.

Taking a dig at the Congress leadership for saying that Polavaram Project would be accorded national status, she wondered how the project would draw water. “There is no drinking water source for Seema Andhra as the entire belt from Kuppam to Srikakulam will only be left with salt water of the sea,” she said.

She said the Madras city had been taken away in the past and now the Hyderabad city is also being taken away in the most unjustified manner 60 years after the city has been built. Lambasting the Congress for taking a unilateral decision on the Telangana issue, she asserted that Hyderabad city was for all and Seema Andhra people have also a right over it.