Irrigation Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy has announced that the judicial probe proposed into the alleged irregularities in the Kaleshwaram project will commence this week and those found guilty will not be spared.
He asserted that the Congress government believes in transparency and a team of Cabinet Ministers which visited the Medigadda barrage to assess the situation would submit its report soon. The Congress government is committed to ordering a probe and holding the guilty in the irregularities accountable, he said.
Mr. Uttam Kumar Reddy was responding to the criticism of Union Minister and State BJP president G. Kishan Reddy over the inaction of the Congress government in taking action against the guilty in the Kaleshwaram project irregularities. The allegations made by Mr. Kishan Reddy were far from truth and baseless charges were aimed at misleading the people. In fact, the TRS/BRS government in Telangana and the BJP government at the Centre collaborated for nearly 3,500 days, but Mr. Kishan Reddy was targetting the new Congress government which did not complete a month in power. “Why was the BJP silent during the past 10 years when the Kaleshwaram scam occurred?” he questioned.
