BRS to launch Statewide stir against Congress negligence towards Telangana irrigation projects

A high-level strategy meeting with top BRS functionaries, chaired by party president K Chandrashekhar Rao, will be held shortly to finalise the action plan

Hyderabad: In a significant move, the BRS is gearing up to launch a Statewide agitation against deliberate and criminal negligence of the Congress government towards Telangana’s irrigation projects.

A high-level strategy meeting with top BRS functionaries, chaired by party president K Chandrashekhar Rao, will be held shortly to finalise the action plan.

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The BRS would launch the agitation with a focus on the alleged abandonment of key irrigation projects which are in the final stages of completion. The Palamuru-Ranga Reddy Lift Irrigation Scheme, reportedly 90 per cent finished, and the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project, crippled under the pretext of structural issues, are expected to be deliberated during the discussion.

The silence of Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on these lifeline projects has drawn sharp flak from the main opposition, which sees this as part of a politically motivated strategy to stall BRS-era initiatives.

The meeting is expected to chalk out protest plans, with the BRS preparing for an aggressive campaign exposing anti-farmer conspiracies of the Congress. Chandrashekhar Rao is likely to speak about the deliberate neglect in taking up repairs at the Medigadda barrage.

The BRS has been blaming the Congress government for hiding behind technical excuses, while deliberately starving nearly 10 lakh acres of farmland of water.