HYDERABAD: The BRS on Tueday declared that the state government had cherry-picked from the Justice P.C. Ghose commission of inquiry’s report into Kaleshwaram lift irrigation scheme’s barrages. Party leader and former irrigation minister T. Harish Rao said Monday’s by the government was “based only on what they wanted people to see and hear,” and that the report itself was little more than “trash.”
Harish Rao, who figured prominently in the government’s presentation, said that the findings would not stand judicial scrutiny, and that the report was “cooked-up without facts.”
Harish Rao said Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy had thrown governance to the winds, and was engaging in political vendetta. “This entire inquiry by the commission appears to be driven by conspiracy. Once this 665-page report is tabled in the Assembly, we will corner the government, and rip it apart with facts. So far, what has been revealed is a one-sided story that reflects Revanth Reddy’s single agenda which is to harass Chandrashekar Rao,” Harish Rao said.
The BRS leader, who gave a presentation countering what he said was to expose just a few of the points made by the government, said even in the past, many commissions were set, but they did not stand in courts of law. “What Revanth Reddy is doing is running daily soap operas and his efforts to run down KCR will not succeed. Kaleshwaram is truly a boon and even Revanth Reddy knows this,” Harish Rao said.
The BRS leader, who issued counters to some of the aspects in the government presentation on the commission’s report, said the Kaleshwaram project was fully functional and safe. “Irrigation minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy said in the Assembly that Sundilla and Annaram barrages are safe. Spreading lies that Kaleshwaram has collapsed just because two piers sank is just propaganda. If the government cannot repair the two damaged piers at Medigadda, the BRS will do this within months of returning to power,” Harish Rao said.
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