Harish Rao flays CM’s ‘ignorance’ on Krishna water use in 2025-26

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He sought to know whether the Chief Minister and the Irrigation Minister had no knowledge about what the Engineer-in-Chief of Irrigation wrote to the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) on the utilisation of water on May 2 this year. Citing the letter addressed by the ENC to the river board, the BRS leader said the ENC himself had stated in the letter that Andhra Pradesh had utilised 74.23% water in 2025-26 against 25.77% water used by Telangana.

Seeking to know whether the Chief Minister and the Irrigation Minister would understand the basics since 30 months had lapsed after they had assumed power, Mr. Harish Rao said he would never speak without any basis and only the Congress leaders had the habit of speaking lies indiscriminately. The Chief Minister who would often claim himself of “Palamuru Bidda” (son of Mahabubnagar soil) had done nothing for his district in two-and-a-half years as the Chief Minister.

He remarked that the Chief Minister was speaking lies and half-truths to cover up his failures. He accused Mr. Revanth Reddy of wilfully neglecting the Palamuru-Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme that would provide irrigation facility to 12.3 lakh acres of uplands and drinking water to villages. He said it was Mr. Revanth Reddy who had encouraged filing of cases against PRLIS when in opposition.

A total of 10 lakh acres was brought under irrigation in Palamuru during BRS rule and brought back those who went on migration for livelihood after turning the district as an address to distress migration and hunger deaths by the previous Congress and TDP rules, he said.