Hyderabad: Reacting to Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s warning that Congress and TD leaders face jail if they continue to make false allegations against his government, TPCC president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy on Wednesday said Congressmen would prefer to go to jail than stop fighting for justice to the state.
Addressing a hastily-arranged press conference at his residence, Mr Reddy said he had served in the defence forces and was not afraid of threats by the Chief Minister.
He said that the Congress was committed to exposing the massive corruption rampant in all irrigation projects taken up by the TRS government.
However, Mr Reddy failed to produce any evidence about existence of a previous agreement wherein the undivided AP and Maharashtra governments agreed on Tammidihatti barrage height being at 152 meters.
Mr Rao had earlier in the day challenged Mr Reddy and Leader of the Opposition K. Jana Reddy to produce the copy of such an agreement.
Mr Reddy did however distributed the copy of a report submitted to state government on the Pranahita-Chevella scheme by Retired Engineers in which it was said that it would be better for the Chief Minister to convince the Maharashtra government to agree to the Tammidihatti barrage height at 152 meters instead of the 148 meters that was agreed upon by the two Chief Ministers on Tuesday.
