Hyderabad: The BRS has made it clear that it is ready for a scrappy battle over the issues surrounding the Kaleshwaram project barrages, with party working president K.T. Rama Rao on Wednesday calling the National Dam Safety Authority’s (NDSA) report “a conjured-up piece of vile imagination, driven by nothing but crass political agenda.” Rama Rao’s remarks come ahead of BRS president and former chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao’s scheduled appearance before the Justice P.C. Ghose Commission of Inquiry on June 5, following notices issued to him by the commission. The commission, set up a year ago, is examining various aspects of the Kaleshwaram project barrages at Sundilla, Annaram and Medigadda. It has also summoned former irrigation minister T. Harish Rao and former finance minister Etala Rajendar for cross-examination.Rama Rao was referring to a letter from L&T PES-JV to the irrigation department seeking clarifications on the NDSA report. The letter highlighted what it described as inconsistencies in the report, particularly regarding the quality aspects of the Medigadda barrage.He said he was “glad that L&T is standing up against the utter political mudslinging via an unscientific report and pointing out what BRS had always said. The NDSA report is nothing but a conjured-up piece of vile imagination, driven by nothing but crass political agenda.” Rama Rao’s comments appeared in a post on X, where he added, “Cheap quality is not that of Kaleshwaram or Medigadda barrage, but of the current-day politics of Congress and BJP in Telangana.”He asserted that the BRS was justified in calling the NDSA report “an NDA report,” which, he said, was released without proper tests or scientific data. “The Congress and BJP jointly kept attacking Kaleshwaram, the largest multi-stage lift irrigation project in the world. One can create as many conspiracy theories as you feel like, but the fact will remain—Kaleshwaram is the lifeline of Telangana and KCR garu is a visionary,” Rama Rao said.
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