Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has suddenly developed a lot of concern for the submergence villages of Polavaram major irrigation project, which were affected during the recent floods.
Naidu toured some of the submergence villages of Polavaram at Yetakapaka, Kukkunoor and Burgampahad mandals which were delinked from Telangana and merged with Andhra Pradesh, which were inundated by floods to Godavari river recently.
He regretted that the submergence villages of Polavaram were included in Alluri Sitarama Raju district with Paderu as the district headquarters.
“Paderu does not have even proper roads and is not approachable to the people. How the people in the Polavaram submerged areas will go to Paderu to represent their grievances? If the TDP comes to power in the next elections, we shall form a separate district for Polavaram,” he asked.
Naidu also alleged that the Jagan government was not showing any concern towards rehabilitation of the project evacuees.
But the TDP chief forgot the fact that the submergence villages had faced the same problem during his regime as well.
If they are facing difficulties to go to Paderu to represent their problems, they were facing the same difficulty in going to Kakinada, which was then the district headquarters of East Godavari.
“Naidu is talking about making Polavaram as a separate district now. Why didn’t he think of the same in the past? Why didn’t take up rehabilitation of people from Polavaram submergence villages then?” asked former minister Perni Venkatramaiah alias Perni Nani.
He alleged that Naidu had not visited these villages even once during his regime between 2014 and 2019. So, he did not understand their problems.
Any answer from Naidu?
