HYDERABAD: BRS working president and former municipal administration minister KT Rama Rao has blamed Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, who is holding the Urban Development portfolio, for the collapse of the sidewall of Sunkishala project.
Speaking to reporters here on Friday, Rama Rao wondered why the government hid the information, even though the sidewall of the project had collapsed on August 1. He blamed it on the inefficiency of the government.
Rama Rao noted that the sidewall had collapsed when the State Legislative Assembly was in session. The chief minister should have made a statement on the incident in the Assembly, he contended. Either the government was unaware of the incident or it conveniently avoided informing the House, he pointed out.
He accused the state government of putting the blame on the previous BRS regime to escape from its responsibility. “Nothing has happened to Medigadda dam even after 12 lakh cusecs of water flowed into it this season. In spite of that, the government is diverting Godavari waters to Mallannasagar and other reservoirs,” he pointed out.
When the piers of Medigadda barrage were damaged, the NDSA team hurriedly visited the spot. But the national agency was not coming to visit Sunkishala, Rama Rao said. “The NDSA team not visiting Sunkishala is part of a pact between the Congress and the BJP,” the Sircilla MLA remarked.
The former IT minister demanded that the government order a judicial probe into the incident. The sidewall of Sunkishala did not collapse due to engineering defects but because of lack of proper planning by the government, he alleged.
Rama Rao said that Sunkishala was designed to draw Krishna water from a depth of 462 feet at Nagarjunasagar to meet the drinking water needs of Hyderabad. Even during dry spells for three to four years, the water could be drawn from the dead storage to meet drinking water requirements of Hyderabad because of Sunkishala, he asserted and added a team of BRS leaders would visit the project soon.
Kodangal farmers meet BRS working president Several farmers from the Kodangal Assembly segment, which is being represented by Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, called on BRS working president KT Rama Rao at Telangana Bhavan and complained that the government was forcibly trying to acquire 3,000 acres of land for the establishment of pharma companies. Farmers from Hakimpet, Polepalli and other villages met Rama Rao. They alleged that CM’s brother Tirupathi Reddy was threatening them when the farmers opposed setting up of pharma industries. Rama Rao assured them that the BRS would support them.