The Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) criticised the “hurried resolution” passed by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao in the Legislative Assembly against any future uranium mining as “hasty decision taken with neither a progressive vision nor with full knowledge of the need and consequences of uranium mining”.
“If the government has any objection with already issued permissions, it could very well deal with the Central government through its administrative channels. Passing an Assembly resolution without any substantial debate, using brute majority in the House is purely a political overture by the Chief Minister against the Central government,” observed party spokesperson K. Krishnasagar Rao on Tuesday.
In fact, the TRS government has been known to be “environmentally insensitive and reckless” by trying to undermine the lung space of Hyderabad through marginalising the KBR park, looking the other way on mammoth destruction of historic rock formations, brazenly promoting encroachments into historic tanks and water bodies, he said.
Mr. Rao cautioned that the Central government has “overbearing administrative powers” on mines and minerals across the nation and states have limited powers in reference to valuable national resources such as uranium mines.