Ignorant Ministers Saying Different Things on Tummidihatti: Harish
First, he said, the government should have completed repairs to Medigadda barrage to put it to use, especially with the El Nino developing which could result in lesser rains this year
Hyderabad: Former irrigation minister T. Harish Rao said Congress leaders, including Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, were deliberately misleading people on plans to build a barrage at Tummidihatti, which itself was a campaign to malign the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation scheme.
Addressing a press conference in Siddipet on Saturday, Harish Rao said the government should “immediately halt its Tummidihatti political drama and take up repairs to the Medigadda barrage.” He said Friday’s visit by ministers to Tummidihatti exposed how Revanth Reddy and his ministers were making speeches instead of getting any work done on the ground.
First, he said, the government should have completed repairs to Medigadda barrage to put it to use, especially with the El Nino developing which could result in lesser rains this year. Second, they are creating enormous confusion over their Tummidihatti plans, he said. “The Chief Minister claims water will be lifted from Tummidihatti to Sripada Yellampalli reservoir. Irrigation minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy says water will be brought from Tummidihatti to Sundilla barrage, while minister Jupally Krishna Rao says water will be brought to Yellampalli through gravity from Tummidihatti,” Harish Rao said. “Who is speaking the truth?”
Meanwhile, minister Vivek Venkatswamy falsely claimed that the then Congress government entered into an agreement with Maharashtra to build a 150-metre high barrage at Tummidihatti. “If this agreement exists, why was nothing done to build the barrage in undivided Andhra Pradesh by the then Congress government,” Harish Rao asked.