Miryalaguda rally blocked, dharna gets a ground
Nalgonda police denied the BRS procession through town but permitted a 3 p.m. protest at the NSP Camp Ground on Thursday, September 3. The party is demanding water for the Nagarjuna Sagar Left Canal.
Police permitted the dharna at NSP Camp Ground but denied the procession through Miryalaguda.
The Congress government in Telangana has allowed the BRS protest—provided it does not travel through Miryalaguda. Nalgonda police permitted a dharna at the NSP Camp Ground at 3 p.m. on Thursday, September 3, while continuing to deny permission for the planned procession from the flyover bridge to Rajiv Chowk. K. T. Rama Rao was scheduled to attend. (Telangana Today)
The BRS says the protest is over the non-release of water into the Nagarjuna Sagar Left Canal. Its wider campaign lists irrigation, power, urea, crop insurance and other farmer issues. Claims about broader “illegal diversion” of Krishna water remain the party’s allegations; the material reviewed does not establish what water was allegedly diverted, where it went or whether a competent authority found it illegal. (NT News; Times of India)
Police cited traffic, law-and-order and route-management concerns, including the connection to National Highway-167 and Rajiv Chowk’s narrow approaches. The police order itself was not available in the material reviewed. The government and Irrigation Department have not publicly answered the canal-water demand in the reports examined. The rally is denied; the protest is permitted—at a venue where it cannot inconvenience the road network. (Telangana Today)