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Lok Satta Party President Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan is visiting the villages the party adopted in the wake of the October 2009 floods in Krishna and Guntur districts on July 19 and 20.

Party General Secretary Katari Srinivasa Rao released Dr. JP’s tour schedule to the media here today.

On July 19, Dr. JP will be delivering the Chennupati Seshagiri Rao memorial lecture at Vijayawada in the morning and inspecting the lift irrigation reconstruction scheme in Dakshina Chiruvolu Lanka in Avanigadda mandal. On his return to Vijayawada in the evening, he will inaugurate the party office at Kandriga and address a public meeting.

On July 20, he will inaugurate the community hall built by the part in Venkatraju nagar of Oleru panchayat in Vemuru constitutency. He will take part in a meeting of party workers in Guntur in the evening.

The Lok Satta Party today suggested that the Union Government assume responsibility for resolution of inter-State river water disputes and water distribution among States through an appropriate Constitutional amendment.

Talking to media, Lok Satta Party leaders Katari Srinivasa Rao and Lenkala Raja Reddy said such intervention was necessary to ward off a threat to national unity and integrity.

They described the arrest of TDP leaders including former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu by Maharashtra police under the pretext of preempting law and order problems was untenable. Preventing a fact-finding team from visiting Babli and other projects under construction in Maharashtra was unwarranted. As Indians, even Maharashtra people should know facts on these projects, said the party leaders.