Kothagudem: BRS targets Congress on Kaleshwaram issue in blindfolded protest

BRS cadres staged a blindfolded protest in Kothagudem, alleging that the Congress government was targeting former CM K Chandrashekhar Rao using the Ghose Commission report on Kaleshwaram. Leaders claimed the report was biased and accused ministers of misleading the Assembly

Kothagudem: BRS ranks staged a protest at the Telangana Martyrs’ Memorial at Pragati Maidan here on Monday against the Congress government’s efforts to target former Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao using the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project (KLIP).

Former municipal chairperson Kapu Seethalakshmi and others staged a blindfolded protest symbolising the government’s inability to see the facts related to the project and its false campaign against the BRS chief.

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Speaking on the occasion, Seethalakshmi alleged that Congress party was trying to smear the previous BRS regime using the PC Ghose Commission report on Kaleshwaram. Former Minister T Harish Rao was repeatedly interrupted while he was answering the Assembly during a discussion on the Kaleshwaram project, she said.

The Ghose Commission report was far from the truth and was a report prepared in favour of the Congress party, she said, adding that Chandrashekhar Rao built the project to make the Telangana region fertile by irrigating the drought-hit areas. But the Congress was trying to discredit him, she said.

Seethalakshmi stated that the ministers who do not have the slightest knowledge about the project wasted the time of the House by asking irrelevant questions and misled the House. The allegation that financial irregularities worth Rs 1 lakh crore took place in the Rs. 87,000 crore worth project was proof of their ignorance, she added.

Former councilor Prasad, BRS workers Thogaru Rajasekhar, Munir, Madhavi, Ramilla Madhu, Poornachander Naik, Hanumantha Rao, Pothuraj Ravi, Rajamouli, Sambasiva Rao, B Koteswara Rao, Srinivasa Rao, Kapu Navneet and others took part in the protest.