Hours after Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) suspended MLC K Kavitha from the party, Telangana Jagruthi leader Varalakshmi came in support of her and said her remarks on the Kaleshwaram project probe came from her emotions as "a daughter of a fighter."
Reacting to the suspension of K Kavitha from the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), Congress MP Kiran Kumar Chamala on Tuesday said she had admitted that the party, under KCR's leadership, "looted Telangana in the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project," and urged her to approach the CBI or other
Following the Telangana government's handing over of the Kaleshwaram project case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Telangana BJP chief N Ramchander Rao alleged that there was a delay in handling the case, which has enabled the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) to erase all the evide
BRS MLC K Kavitha, reacting to the Telangana government's decision to order a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the Kaleshwaram project, defended BRS chief K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR).
The Ghose Commission of Inquiry submitted its report to the government on July 31, 2025. The state cabinet approved the commission report on August 4, 2025. The state cabinet also decided to table the report in the assembly and discuss it in detail.
He said that key civil-works assets have remained unusable for nearly two years, and the state is saddled with costs that he said were avoidable and unsupported by sound engineering or administrative discipline.
KTR maintained that Kaleshwaram, the world's largest lift irrigation scheme, is an "engineering marvel" and a boon to lakhs of farmers. "We will not allow any attempt to sabotage this project. If necessary, we will take the fight to the people through a mass movement," he warned.
Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy fired a salvo at BRS leader and MLA T Harish Rao for distorting facts on the Kaleshwaram project during the debate on the Justice PC Ghose Commission report on the project.
On the second day of its sixth session, the Telangana Legislative Assembly on Sunday considered the report of Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose Commission of Inquiry on the construction of the Medigadda, Annaram and Sundilla barrages of the Kaleshwaram Project.
"The decision to construct the barrages at Medigadda, Annaram, and Sundilla (of the Kaleshwaram Project) was the sole and individual decision of the Minister (Irrigation) and the Chief Minister. There was no formal decision of the Government in this regard," the report read, adding that K
CM Revanth Reddy questioned KCR for not bringing the river Godavari water to Telangana during the 10-year BRS rule. The CM took strong exception to the BRS leader's statements that the Telangana state would have had abundant Godavari water in three days if KCR were in power.