Prove graft charges or go to jail: K Chandrasekhar Rao warns Opposition

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday warned leaders of the Congress and the Telugu Desam that his government would file criminal cases against them if they leveled false allegations of corruption in irrigation and other projects.

“Prove it or have jail food,” he remarked. He challenged TPCC president Uttam Kumar Reddy and Leader of Opposition K. Jana Reddy that he would resign as Chief Minister and take political sanyas if they proved that the Congress had signed an agreement with Maharashtra in the past for the Tammidihatti Barrage’s height at 153 metres.

Mr Rao also said that he would expose the Opposition’s game plan, vilification campaign, government programmes and policies etc. through a TV channel in the next two or three days and subsequently undertake a bus yatra across Telangana state.

Calling the agreement with Maharashtra as historic and one more step to-wards providing water for 1 crore acre from Krishna and Godavari rivers, he vowed to make good on his promises at any cost.