Congress responsible for excluding PRLIS from AP Reorganisation Act’s Section 89, damaging Telangana’s interests: Bandi Sanjay

Union Minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar alleged that Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy had made “outright mendacious statements” connected the level of the Assembly, peculiarly regarding the Palamuru–Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme (PRLIS). He asserted that it was the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unsocial that had launched sustained agitations against the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) authorities implicit the project, questioning whether Congress had ever led specified movements.

Speaking to the media successful Karimnagar connected Thursday (January 8, 2026), helium claimed recognition for exerting unit connected erstwhile Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao and said the BJP had compelled the BRS leadership to code water-related injustices. He further claimed that the Central Government had convened respective meetings to guarantee that Telangana was not denied its rightful stock of stream waters.

Accusing Congress of being the ‘first and superior offender’ successful committing injustice to Telangana, Mr. Sanjay pointed retired that during the agreed Andhra Pradesh era, contempt the Krishna stream h2o allocation being 811 TMCs, Telangana was ne'er allowed to utilise much than 200 TMCs.

Similarly, helium said that though the Godavari stream h2o stock stood astatine 1,486 TMCs, Telangana’s utilisation ne'er crossed 500 TMCs nether Congress rule.

PRLIS excluded from AP Reorganisation Act provision

Referring to the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, helium said Congress had betrayed Telangana. He cited Section 89 of the Act, which states that nary objections should beryllium raised implicit h2o projects that were nether operation oregon successful the readying signifier astatine the clip of bifurcation. While 4 projects successful Andhra Pradesh and 2 successful Telangana were included nether this provision, the Palamuru–Rangareddy task was conspicuously excluded, helium alleged.

Questioning the soundlessness of Congress leaders who were successful powerfulness astatine the time, Mr. Sanjay asked wherefore they failed to entity to the exclusion of the project, calling it a historical injustice to Telangana’s interests.

The Union Minister alleged that Congress and BRS were indulged successful ‘political theatrics’ to divert attraction from cardinal nationalist concerns specified arsenic the implementation of the Congress government’s six guarantees and pending corruption inquiries against the erstwhile BRS regime.