Hyderabad: Senior BRS leader Errabelli Dayakar Rao and BRS MLA D Sudheer Reddy accused the Congress govt of failing to utilise available water in Kaleshwaram project and aggravating drought conditions across Telangana . They demanded that the govt immediately undertake repairs to Medigadda barrage, utilise the available water for irrigation and provide relief to farmers facing crop losses.
He said BRS leaders had visited Kannepalli and Medigadda and urged officials to lift water when the inflow was around 20,000 cusecs. “There was an opportunity to lift water for 80 to 120 days during the previous monsoon season. They called upon the Congress govt to focus on irrigation, drinking water and farmers’ welfare instead of engaging in political attacks against the previous BRS regime. He claimed that the NDSA report had also indicated that water could be lifted from Kannepalli. However, the govt allowed the water to flow downstream instead of using it for irrigation,” he alleged.
Addressing the media at Telangana Bhavan on Monday, Sudheer Reddy alleged that the govt had deliberately refrained from lifting water from Kannepalli pumphouse and Medigadda barrage for political reasons, despite sufficient water being available.