Hyderabad: BRS working president KT Rama Rao said the Telangana high court’s verdict on the PC Ghose commission has put an end to the misinformation campaign allegedly carried out by Congress leaders and chief minister A Revanth Reddy over the past two and a half years. He said the project has not collapsed, rather the “false narratives and conspiracies of Congress have collapsed.“He alleged that the conspiracies of the Congress party against the Kaleshwaram project had fallen apart with the verdict. Calling it a decisive victory for the people of Telangana and its farmers, the former minister said the truth has ultimately prevailed over false propaganda.Addressing the media at Telangana Bhavan, KTR said the panel’s report was, in reality, a politically motivated document. He said that the party had consistently maintained that Congress was deliberately targeting the project. The HC verdict, he said, now stands as proof of those claims. He asked the Congress to immediately stop politicising the project and to instead focus on restoring and operationalising it. He also advised the govt to shift its attention from “cheap publicity” to governance and repairs.KTR criticised the Congress for what he called ‘reckless propaganda’, including public demonstrations aimed at misleading people about the condition of the project. He said falsehood cannot overshadow the truth indefinitely and that the significance of Kaleshwaram has once again been reaffirmed. Referring to the project’s scale, he noted that in a Rs 94,000 crore project, only limited structural damage had occurred, requiring repairs worth around Rs 400 crore. He alleged that even when the contracting agency was willing to undertake repairs, it was obstructed, suggesting a conspiracy to portray the entire project as having collapsed. He accused both the Congress and the BJP of jointly targeting the project and undermining Telangana’s irrigation and farmers’ future, adding that the court order has exposed this alleged nexus. KTR urged the Congress govt to immediately bring the project back into operation and resume water lifting without further delay. He said that if the govt has grievances against BRS leaders, it is free to conduct any number of inquiries, but should not harm farmers in the process. He also criticised the NDA govt for selectively responding to the issue earlier but remaining silent after changes in the state govt. He questioned why no reports were sought on the damages that occurred after Congress came to power.Slams Bandi & BJPKTR criticised the BJP, alleging that it shares a ‘Fevicol-like’ bond with the Congress in Telangana. Reacting to Union minister Bandi Sanjay’s allegations that money bags are being delivered to Congress leaders, KTR questioned whether it is not the responsibility of the Union home ministry to seize such illegal funds. He advised Bandi Sanjay to remember that he is a Union minister and to stop speaking like a corporator in the streets of Karimnagar, and instead behave in a manner befitting his position.
