Aruna Calls Revanth’s Heli-tour Publicity Stunt

Hyderabad: BJP national vice president and Mahbubnagar MP D.K. Aruna on Thursday accused Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy of staging a publicity-driven heli-tour to inspect irrigation projects in Mahbubnagar, saying the two-day visit will not advance stalled irrigation works and even just help in finding potholes on the roads.

Speaking at the party’s Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Prashikshan programme in Gadwal, Aruna urged the state government to release funds for pending irrigation schemes and said Revanth had failed to make meaningful progress in his two and a half years in office—mirroring the lack of any progress under K. Chandrashekar Rao’s decade-long tenure.

Aruna pointed to a series of unfinished and neglected projects, saying the Jurala safety bridge remains incomplete despite repeated promises. She said the Ryalampadu project has been unable to store water for five years because its gates have not been repaired and the Gattu lift irrigation scheme has been pending for 12 years.

She also accused the government of proposing to increase the capacity of the Gudemdoddi reservoir to 15 tmc without properly assessing its base strength and capacity and said there has been no visible progress on reservoir and canal construction under the Tummilla lift irrigation project.

“When Jurala faced heavy floods, irrigation minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy visited and announced a safety bridge to strengthen the project, but there has been no headway,” she added.

Aruna further accused the Congress government of facing criticism from all sections of the society including farmers, unemployed youth and women and said she has received complaints that Congress party activists were being favoured in the allocation of Indiramma houses over genuine beneficiaries.

She urged party workers to stage protests outside district collector offices if activists receive Indiramma homes in place of eligible claimants.