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Hyderabad: With the Revanth Reddy-led Congress administration in the state and the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the Centre on one side, and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) on the other, a fresh political tug of war has broken out in Telangana..
Defence Minister Rajnanth Singh Tuesday laid the foundation stone for the strategically significant VLF station at Damagundam Reserve Forest site in Vikarabads Pudur mandal..
At least 1,400 acres of this land was meant for technical areas, offices and residences, and the remaining earmarked as restricted area, to be fenced off owing to the nature of the project, and preserved as a green belt.As early as 2010, the project ran into rough weather, with environmental activists and villagers claiming it would lead to axing of nearly 12 lakh trees in an ecologically sensitive area..
The station is a death knell for the source of Musi river, he said.. Hyderabad witnessed some street protests opposing the VLFS in recent weeks, while the National Alliance of Peoples Movement (NAPM) reportedly wrote to CM Revanth Reddy, arguing that felling of trees on such a large scale would lead to soil erosion, impacting the river basin...
Addressing government officials and Naval officers following the foundation stone-laying ceremony Tuesday, CM Revanth Reddy took aim at the opposition BRS, saying, Some political forces are trying to create controversy over VLFS, a national security project, creating misconceptions and attempting to stoke public fears..
