Political atmosphere heats up in Telangana

Both Congress and Bharat Rashtra Samithi hold programmes on the same day countering each other.

Hyderabad: Political atmosphere in Telangana has charged up with the ruling Congress as the main opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) organised programmes on the same day countering each other on Tuesday.

While Congress legislators led by chief minister A Revanth Reddy travelled in buses to  Medigadda barrage to expose the alleged corruption by the previous BRS government in constructing irrigation projects, the opposition party held a massive public meeting in Nalgonda on Tuesday protesting Congress government’s decision to handover projects to union government controlled Krishna River Management Board (KRMB). 

The ‘Chalo Nalgonda’ is being viewed as the launch of the BRS  campaign for Lok Sabha elections slated in the next few months.  At the meeting  former chief minister, K Chandrashekar Rao  vowed that he will  not let injustice meted out to Telangana. 

He alleged that the resolution that was passed in the state assembly on Monday putting aside discussion on budget  only shows the desperation of the Congress government.  He also found fault with the resolution citing there are many discrepancies.

KCR’s public meeting on Tuesday was his first after  BRS’ debacle in last year's Assembly polls and his total hip replacement surgery.

Revanth Reddy who along with MLAs of Congress and MIM visited  Lakshmi Barrage in Medigadda said that the previous government had failed to provide irrigation water even for one lakh  acres  of ayacut from the Kaleshwaram project that was built at a cost of almost Rs one lakh crores.

Besides, he said the KCR government was indulging in large scale corruption in the name of redesign of the project. He added that KCR's misdeeds and the corruption would expose his party and he himself skipped the visit to Medigadda.

He also held a review meeting  on the Kaleshwaram project with the irrigation officials.  MLAs of both BJP and BRS skipped Tuesday's visit  to Medigadda.   The MLAs examined the cracks in the piers of Laksmni barrage.

It was in September last year  in the run up to the assembly polls a pillar of the barrage witnessed cracks and also sunk.  Revanth  Reddy alleged that the then KCR government tried to hush up the  cracks in the Medigadda barrage but it was he and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s visit to the barrage in the past that had exposed the cracks.