Telangana: Winter Session Set For Dec 29 Amid Rift Over River Water Share

Hyderabad: Governor Jishnu Dev Varma on Wednesday issued separate notifications summoning the Telangana Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council to meet at 10.30 am on December 29 for the Winter Session. The session has assumed political significance as the Congress and the BRS are engaged in a sharp confrontation over Krishna and Godavari river water-sharing issues.

Officials sources said the House will resume functioning from January 2, 2026, after three-day holiday from December 30 to New Year’s Day.

Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy had announced that the government would seek a special debate in the Assembly to highlight what it termed as the failures of the previous BRS government in securing Telangana’s rightful share of river waters during its ten-year rule from 2014 to 2024. The Chief Minister has maintained that the BRS regime compromised the state’s interests on both Krishna and Godavari river projects, causing long-term damage to irrigation prospects, and his speech in Kodangal was perhaps an indicator of things to come.

According to official sources, Revanth Reddy has directed irrigation minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy to make a detailed presentation in the House, outlining the negligence by the BRS government, including its inability to complete even a single major project on the Krishna river in a decade and the reported structural and financial issues surrounding the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project (KLIS).

Addressing a meeting of newly elected sarpanches in his home constituency Kodangal on Wednesday, Revanth Reddy accused former chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao of neglecting the Palamuru region. He alleged that the Palamuru Rangareddy lift irrigation scheme (PRLIS) was ignored for ten years when the BRS was in power, resulting in severe injustice to farmers.

Revanth Reddy claimed that while the region remained deprived of irrigation water, BRS leaders accumulated enormous personal wealth, and asserted that the present Congress government has resumed work on long-pending projects in a phased manner. The Chief Minister also challenged Chandrashekar Rao to face a debate in the Assembly on Kaleshwaram, Krishna and Godavari waters, and the alleged phone-tapping issue. He referred to public statements made by Chandrashekar Rao's daughter Kalvakuntla Kavitha regarding phone tapping of her husband during BRS regime, and said the silence of BRS leaders on the issue raised serious questions.