NEW DELHI: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N. Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday warned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to resolve the Babli row between Andhra Pradesh and Maharasthra by August 10 or face a major agitation by the TDP and its friendly parties. He blamed Dr. Singh of not having interest in settling the issue.
Water Resources Minister Filipe Neri Rodrigues on Monday informed the House that the Supreme Court has set a time of six weeks for the formation of the Water Dispute Tribunal to solve the water-diversion issue between Goa and Karnataka.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to spell out whether there was any proposal to set up a tribunal to adjudicate the river water dispute between Goa and Karnataka on construction of a project across the Mandovi river.
New Delhi, July 25: Ahead of the all-party delegation meeting with the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, on the Babli project, the TD president, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, is meeting national leaders to take up cudgels against the Maharashtra government.
July 22: Maintaining that every citizen in the country has the right to visit any place of his or her choice, the Telugu Desam (TD) senior leader, Ambica Krishna, found fault with the Maharashtra government for not allowing the TD leaders including opposition leader in state Assembly and party chief N. Chandrababu Naidu to visit the disputed Babli project.
As the controversy relating to the Babhali dam flared up with the visit of TDP leader Chandra Babu Naidu with his party MLAs to Maharashtra in a bid to go to the site of the barrage, the disputing states are now looking for next hearing of the case in the Supreme Court listed on August 10.
Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu being welcomed at the Shamshabad International Airport in Hyderabad on Tuesday.
In their attempt to protect their respective home turfs, the Congress governments in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra ended up handing over the political initiative in the Babli controversy to Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu.
Whenever we hear of new water conflicts between states we groan in trepidation. We feel that such rows will be shrill, emotional, long-winding and complicated
Basar (Adilabad), July 16: The Telugu Desam president, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, on Friday asked the UPA chairperson, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, to convene a meeting of the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, and the Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra to resolve the Babli dispute.
