BRS president and former Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) is set to make a public appearance by convening a joint meeting of the BRS Legislature Party and the party’s state executive on December 19. The meeting will be held at Telangana Bhavan from 2 pm onwards.
Party sources said the discussions will focus on issues related to Krishna and Godavari river waters and the Congress government’s alleged neglect of irrigation projects initiated during the BRS’s decade-long rule. KCR is also expected to deliberate on the need for renewed public movements in Telangana to protect the state’s irrigation rights.
KCR is learnt to have criticised the Congress government over the Palamuru–Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Project, stating that while the previous BRS government had allocated 91 TMCs of water, the current dispensation has settled for only 45 TMCs before the Centre. He also reportedly expressed displeasure that none of the eight BJP MPs elected from Telangana raised the issue in support of farmers.
According to party insiders, KCR believes renewed struggles are essential to counter the BJP’s approach to Telangana’s irrigation issues. He is said to have remarked that water supply from the Palamuru project would have begun by now had the BRS remained in power, accusing the present government of neglecting the interests of people in Palamuru, Rangareddy and Nalgonda districts.