Minister for Agriculture S. Niranjan Reddy has criticised the Opposition parties for politicising the submergence of two pump houses of Kaleshwaram project amid unprecedented floods and forgetting that there had been similar incidents in the past in other States too.
Alleging that the Congress and BJP leaders were unable to digest the fact that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had made Kaleshwaram project possible by taking it up at a location where water availability was highest in the Godavari course, the Minister said benefits of the project had made them more envious.
He pointed out that the senior-most engineers of Central Water Commission (CWC) had termed the project an engineering marvel, but the Congress and BJP leaders were unable to tolerate that even though the farming community was getting benefited. Talking to newspersons here on Sunday, he said the BJP and Congress leaders were alleging ₹2 lakh crore corruption in the project when the spending on it was ₹95,000 crore so far.
