5 months ago
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Hyderabad
Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has asked his Ministers and MLAs to beryllium afloat equipped with facts, documents and Krishna h2o sharing details to ‘expose’ what helium presumption arsenic historical injustice done to Telangana during the BRS regime.
Irrigation Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy is readying a elaborate PowerPoint presumption for Congress MLAs up of the league to familiarise them with method nuances, agreements, tribunal proceedings and fiscal aspects of the Palamuru Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme (PRLIS).
The contiguous trigger for the escalation is the renewed warfare of words implicit the PRLIS, a task captious for the drought-prone districts of Mahabubnagar, Rangareddy and parts of Nalgonda. Both Congress and BRS impeach each different of neglecting the scheme.
Former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has mounted a fierce attack, threatening to “flay the skin” of the authorities for allegedly compromising Telangana’s h2o interests. Mr. Revanth Reddy responded with adjacent aggression, alleging that it was KCR who had “written the decease warrant” for Telangana by accepting conscionable 299 tmc retired of the full of 512 tmc of Krishna h2o disposable post-bifurcation, leaving Andhra Pradesh with a larger stock contempt Telangana having a important riparian area.
The Chief Minister’s governmental calculation looks clear, person the Assembly level into a forum to enactment the BRS connected the defensive. By openly challenging KCR to be the House and “prove innocence” connected Krishna h2o agreements, Mr. Revanth Reddy is attempting to framework the statement arsenic a motivation and governmental nonaccomplishment of the erstwhile regime.
Significantly, the CM has adjacent said helium is consenting to fto KCR determine the duration of the Assembly session, a determination aimed astatine projecting confidence.
The Congress enactment is nether nary illusion that the BRS volition stay passive. BRS moving president K.T. Rama Rao and erstwhile Irrigation Minister T. Harish Rao are expected to pb a forceful counter-narrative, highlighting delays, outgo escalations and incomplete works nether the Congress government.
Anticipating this, the Chief Minister has directed Ministers and MLAs from the affected districts to hole district-wise and project-wise rebuttals. A cardinal enactment of onslaught volition beryllium the alleged “silent support” extended by the BRS authorities to erstwhile Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy connected Krishna h2o issues, which the Congress claims weakened Telangana’s bargaining presumption now.
Beyond legislative politics, the stakes are electoral. PRLIS volition beryllium a governmental contented successful the adjacent Assembly elections successful South Telangana if important advancement is not visible. The Congress government’s statement is that the harm was already done during the BRS tenure and it is attempting a people correction by pursuing Telangana’s claims earlier the Krishna Tribunal.
