Telangana BJP president and Union Minister for Tourism G. Kishan Reddy, on Tuesday, said that the Centre has expressed its willingness to initiate a CBI probe into the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project (KLIP) if the government was ready for the same.
“The BRS regime under K. Chandrasekhar Rao had resorted to several scandals, and therefore it is not interested in such a probe but it is for Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy to explain why he is also not seeking a CBI probe,” he said at a press conference in Warangal.
The State’s vigilance and enforcement wing does not have the capacity to investigate the quality, planning, design or work execution lapses of the project. The department’s preliminary report had only mirrored the NDSA’s and wondered if the government was aiming only to gain political mileage without taking corrective measures. “Where is the need to visit the site again after a group of ministers had already toured?” he questioned.
