Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has announced that his government will release a white paper on the irrigation projects and their status during the forthcoming budget session of the State legislature and is prepared to allow a two-day debate on the issue.
He dared former Chief Minister and Opposition leader K.Chandrasekhar Rao to be present in the Assembly during the debate where the government intends to furnish proof relating to “misgivings” of the previous BRS government in irrigation projects. The irrigation sector was allowed to collapse during Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao’s reign when he was handling the portfolio and also when his nephew T. Harish Rao was Irrigation Minister during the first term of the BRS (then TRS) government.
The Chief Minister pooh-poohed the reports that Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao was planning to launch protests in Nalgonda “to expose the Congress government’s failures” and asked the BRS leaders to come and participate in the debate. “We are ready for a joint sitting of the legislature to discuss the issue. Let Mr.Chandrasekhar Rao, Mr.Harish Rao, K.T. Rama Rao and Kalvakuntla Kavita participate in the debate. But Mr.Chandrasekhar Rao should sit through the debate,” he said.
