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.
Before the formation of Telangana, save for Hyderabad, the rest of the nine districts were declared as backward by the then Congress-led Union government.
A conspiracy angle was being suspected after a small stretch of the bridge of the barrage appeared out of alignment, giving rise to apprehensions that the base of one of the 87 pillars could have sunk a bit.
