KCR vows massive agitation over Palamuru-Ranga Reddy project, slams State and Centre

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Bharat Rashtra Samithi president   and erstwhile  Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao addresses the media successful  Hyderabad connected  Sunday.

Bharat Rashtra Samithi president and erstwhile Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao addresses the media successful Hyderabad connected Sunday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

HYDERABAD

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president and erstwhile Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao announced that the enactment would soon motorboat a monolithic people’s question successful erstwhile Mahabubnagar, Ranga Reddy and Nalgonda, to exposure the ‘slackness’ of the ruling Congress authorities successful executing the Palamuru-Ranga Reddy Lift Irrigation Project (PRLIP).

He besides slammed the Centre for “returning the Detailed Project Report (DPR) of the plan, and warned that the enactment would not spare the Central government.

Addressing the media, aft holding a gathering of BRSLP and State Executive Committee astatine the Telangana Bhavan connected Sunday, KCR accused Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy of wholly neglecting the Palamuru-Ranga Reddy task implicit the past 2 years.

“Not adjacent a tub of world has been moved for the project, which was intended to irrigate 7 lakh acres successful the astir backward areas of the erstwhile Mahabubnagar territory alone,” helium said.

Elaborating connected the projects conceived during his tenure arsenic the Chief Minister, KCR said that the Palamuru-RR task was projected with a nett allocation of 90.81 tmcft of h2o from the Krishna River. “We planned the task expecting a full allocation of 170 tmcft,” helium said.

Claiming that the Centre had precocious returned the DPR of the project, the erstwhile Chief Minister questioned the State government’s soundlessness connected the issue. “Had we been successful power, we would person organised large-scale protests against the Centre’s decision. But this authorities remains mum. We privation to cognize who is pressuring them to stay soundless contempt sedate injustice meted retired to the State,” helium said, holding Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu liable for returning the DPR.

KCR further claimed that the BRS authorities had already spent ₹27,000 crore retired of the estimated outgo of ₹35,000 crore for the task and acquired 27,000 acres of land.

He besides slammed Irrigation Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, alleging that helium had written to the Centre agreeing to a connection connected an allocation of lone 45 tmcft of h2o for the Palamuru-Ranga Reddy project. The erstwhile Chief Minister announced that helium would code protestation meetings successful the 3 districts that autumn nether the Krishna basin and guarantee the project’s completion astatine immoderate cost.

“We remained soundless for the past 2 years, but you (Congress government) person done thing for the people’s benefit. Keeping this successful view, we volition combat bony and nail for their welfare,” helium declared.

Referring to Revanth Reddy’d governance, KCR accused him of failing connected each fronts and misleading radical with mendacious promises to triumph the election. He besides alleged that Revanth Reddy was progressive successful existent property concern nether the guise of a Future City project. He said that the MoUs signed during the caller Telangana Rising Global Summit 2024 would not materialise owed to the deficiency of due policies.

Published - December 21, 2025 09:15 p.m. IST

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