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Andhra Pradesh
By Our Special Correspondent
Disclosing this at a media conference on Thursday, the GJSS convener, Konathala Ramakrishna, said: "The procession will be peaceful, causing least inconvenience to the public.'' He said that the route of the procession, being taken out via Railway New Colony, Diamond Park, RTC Complex, Aseelmetta Junction, Municipal Corporation office and Jagadamba Junction, had been carefully chosen to avoid its passing through congested thoroughfares like Dabagardens. ``There will be no traffic blockade by way of `rasta roko'. At the end of the rally, a memorandum would be presented to the District Collector to be forwarded to the State Government, urging the early announcement of the project it had in mind,'' the former Mayor, Sabbam Hari, said in reply to a question. Asked why representatives of the CPI(M) were not present, the CPI leader, Manam Anjaneylu, said that that party insisted that there be no privatisation of the project to bring the Godavari waters. "We felt that it is premature to make such a demand while the Government has still not reacted positively to our demand,'' he explained. About the City Congress Committee president, Dronamraju Srinivasa Rao's show-cause letter to Mr. Ramakrishna, who is also the APCC general secretary, on his links with the samithi, of which the "communal'' BJP is also a constituent, the latter said that he had not received such a letter. "When every political party is keen on bringing the Godavari waters to the city, one should not look into other aspects than the sacred mission of quenching the city's thirst,'' he said. The GJSS convener said that he would personally meet leaders of the Telugu Desam Party and the CPI(M0, apart from Mr. Srinivasa Rao, to persuade them to join the rally. "It is our fond hope that being the ruling party, the TDP should lead this mission.'' At the outset, Mr. Ramakrishna said during the last four decades, no serious effort had been made by any Government for finding a solution to this problem. It had become imperative now to work out a scheme with a perspective for the next 50 years. He appealed to the Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, "who is keen on developing Vizag as a major industrial centre'', to spell out his proposal after consulting experts on the subject. ``Several alternatives have been put before the Government to solve the drinking water problem of the city. It is for the Government to announce its scheme at the earliest,'' he added. The former Congress MP regretted that Mr. Naidu had "politicised'' the issue by creating a wedge between the Raiwada ryots seeking water for irrigation and the citizens who are hit by the rationing of water supply. The BJP national executive member, P.V. Chalapathi Rao, said that this agitation "is for a common cause and so there is no room for politics''. He wanted it to be made into a people's movement as was done in the case of the steel plant agitation. Mr. Hari said that the Government should act immediately, as the city's water supply system "is already in red with alternate-day supply''. Mr. Anjaneyulu said that no single party or organisation could achieve the goal and hence there was a need to mobilise popular support for the purpose. "It will be appropriate if the district ministers could take the initiative of leading the public agitation.'' The former CPI MLA, P. Govinda Rao, lamented that there had been a lack of clear-cut policy on bringing the Godavari waters to the city.
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