The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) on Tuesday alleged that the Congress government released 48 tmcft of water into sea from the Medigadda barrage since November last as there was an opportunity to lift back water by forming a coffer dam in spite of the structure developing problems in the last week of October .
BRS leader and former Minister for Irrigation Ponnala Lakshmaiah said that by blowing up the issues developed on the barrage, the government was misleading people and suggested that the ruling party come for a debate on the issue of water for irrigation and drinking needs.
He sought to know why the government started releasing water from Yellampally to Karimnagar from April 1 by operating the Nandi and Gayatri pump houses of the Kaleshwaram project, if there was no water, after the BRS chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao announced his visit to fields with withered crops in Karimangar district on April 5.
