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CPI asks Maharashtra govt to release Chandrababu Naidu

'The Communist Party of India holds that the dispute regarding the Babhli Project should be settled through a dialogue rather than confrontation,' said a party statement.

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The Communist Party of India (CPI) today asked Maharashtra government to release Chandrababu Naidu from judicial custody and allow the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief to visit the controversial Babhli barrage, suggesting the dispute over the project should be settled through dialogue.

"The Communist Party of India holds that the dispute regarding the Babhli Project should be settled through a dialogue rather than confrontation," the party said in a statement in New Delhi.

"The party requests Maharashtra government to withdraw all the prosecutions against Chandrababu Naidu and other leaders of the TDP and to forthwith release them from custody," it added.

Naidu and 74 legislators were remanded in two-day judicial custody that ended today after they refused bail and insisted on visiting the project site.

The party said the Maharashtra government should have no objection to allow Chandrababu and his colleagues to visit the Babhli barrage site, saying "after all it is not a secrete and prohibited site."

As to the "substantive" issue concerning the flow of water downstream, they should be resolved through discussions amongst experts from both Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh in the mutual interest of people of the two states.

Slamming the Congress-led UPA government over the issue, the CPI said "the party deplores the attitude of the central government which has not taken up the matter between the two states even though it is pending for more than four years."

The TDP chief and 74 partymen were arrested on July 16 night by Maharashtra police at Dharmabad during the protest over an irrigation project in Babhli.

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