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Rama Rao warned to initiate legal action against the Ministers including the Chief Minister for making baseless allegations against him on the issue.

He said rather than extending relief to the affected families, the Chief Minister was mocking former Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao and asking the opposition BRS to provide details of those who committed suicide due to crop loss.

He denied mismanagement of water resources, stating that poor rainfall led to scarcity of water in irrigation projects and declining groundwater levels

In an open letter, Harish Rao stated that during the BRS regime, the dairy bills were cleared once in every 15 days, but the Congress-led State government kept them pending for the last 45 days.

BRS leaders led by district president GV Ramakrishna Rao, former MLA Sunke Ravishankar and others submitted a representation to Collector Pamela Satpathy here on Tuesday, demanding the government to protect the interests of farmers.

Harish Rao on Tuesday had demanded the government to release water from Mallanna Sagar within 24 hours, failing which people in the command area of the project would lift the gates of the project on their own.

Etala Rajender should be ashamed to question the BRS over the crop loan waiver as it was during his stint as Finance Minister in the then BRS government that the crop loans amounting to Rs.16,000 crore were waived in Telangana.

BRS sought a compensation of Rs 25,000 per acre towards crop loss, Rs 500 per quintal bonus of paddy in addition to Minimum Support Price, disbursement of Rythu Bharosa investment support and also crop loan waiver upto Rs 2 lakh.

He said that the first ever drought erupted in the Yasangi season as the State government had neglected irrigation projects on the pretext of the sinking of three pillars at Medigadda.

Addressing the party cadre during a meeting in Kondapur on Monday, Prabhakar called upon the party cadre to take the failures of the Congress government to the public.

Addressing a Lok Sabha election preparatory meeting at the BRS party district office in Gadwal, Praveen Kumar lamented the deteriorating conditions faced by farmers and citizens, citing issues such as inadequate electricity and water supply.

Even as the crops were drying up, people and farmers were suffering the government remained inactive. This kind of situation never existed in the last ten years and the BRS would fight to protect the interests of farmers, the MP said.\

While the BRS had focused on development and welfare politics, the Congress had focused on propaganda politics.

Despite previous criticisms of the project's efficacy, he noted the sudden release of water to Karimnagar, indicating political maneuvering rather than genuine concern for farmers' welfare.

Water from Yellampalli reservoir was taken to Nandimedaram pump house through the gravity canal. Later, water was lifted to Gayatri pump house from where it was lifted and dumped into the flood flow canal facilitating the farmers to supply water to standing crops by drawing from the canal.

When the BRS was in power, Smitha Sabharwal used to monitor the supply on a daily basis. But the Congress government was not ensuring such supervision.

Reacting to Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’s comments that gates have been lifted, the MLA said the water was but nowhere to be seen and the crops had withered.

He claimed that the need to seek water from other States would not have arisen had the previous government acted responsibly on the water front.

Demanding a compensation of Rs.25,000 per acre to the farmers, KCR, who visited and interacted with farmers in Jangaon, Suryapet and Nalgonda districts, said 200 farmers had lost their lives in just about 100 days of the Congress in power.

He walked in the bylanes where people came out of their houses to meet their favourite leader and share their delight.