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HYDERABAD
Deputy Floor Leader of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) T. Harish Rao has criticised Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy for his comments connected the utilisation of Krishna stream waters successful the 2025-26 h2o twelvemonth and remarked that some the CM and Minister for Irrigation N. Uttam Kumar Reddy deficiency adjacent basal knowing connected the State’s usage of water.
In a connection responding to the comments made by the Chief Minister during his sojourn to the combined Mahabubnagar territory connected Friday, Mr. Rao said it’s unfortunate that the State was being headed by a idiosyncratic lacking basal knowing connected the stream h2o utilisation and said it could beryllium earnestly detrimental to the State’s interests.
He sought to cognize whether the Chief Minister and the Irrigation Minister had nary cognition astir what the Engineer-in-Chief of Irrigation wrote to the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) connected the utilisation of h2o connected May 2 this year. Citing the missive addressed by the ENC to the stream board, the BRS person said the ENC himself had stated successful the missive that Andhra Pradesh had utilised 74.23% h2o successful 2025-26 against 25.77% h2o utilized by Telangana.
Seeking to cognize whether the Chief Minister and the Irrigation Minister would recognize the basics since 30 months had lapsed aft they had assumed power, Mr. Harish Rao said helium would ne'er talk without immoderate ground and lone the Congress leaders had the wont of speaking lies indiscriminately. The Chief Minister who would often assertion himself of “Palamuru Bidda” (son of Mahabubnagar soil) had done thing for his territory successful two-and-a-half years arsenic the Chief Minister.
He remarked that the Chief Minister was speaking lies and half-truths to screen up his failures. He accused Mr. Revanth Reddy of wilfully neglecting the Palamuru-Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme that would supply irrigation installation to 12.3 lakh acres of uplands and drinking h2o to villages. He said it was Mr. Revanth Reddy who had encouraged filing of cases against PRLIS erstwhile successful opposition.
Ridiculing the CM’s comments connected the onshore acquisition for PRLIS, Mr. Harish Rao said contempt creating hurdles by the Congress leaders the past BRS authorities had acquired 27,191 acres land. After sleeping implicit the contented of onshore acquisition for 30 months the speech of proposals for acquiring onshore was unpardonable. It was the BRS authorities that had acquired onshore and accrued irrigation nether Kalwakurthy, Bhima, Nettempadu and Koilsagar projects to 6.5 lakh acres from conscionable 27,000 acres, helium said.
A full of 10 lakh acres was brought nether irrigation successful Palamuru during BRS regularisation and brought backmost those who went connected migration for livelihood aft turning the territory arsenic an code to distress migration and hunger deaths by the erstwhile Congress and TDP rules, helium said.
