Revanth Reddy pushed Palamuru back into migration, says KTR

BRS working president KT Rama Rao held Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy responsible for reversing a decade of development in the drought-prone Palamuru region and pushing it back into distress and migration.

The Congress government had failed to carry forward key irrigation and development projects, prompting BRS chief and former Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao to call for another people’s movement for safeguarding Telangana’s water rights, he said.

Addressing a meeting of newly elected BRS Sarpanches and ward members in Nagarkurnool district on Sunday, Rama Rao said the Palamuru–Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Project, which was 90 per cent completed by the K Chandrashekhar Rao government, was deliberately stalled by the Congress. Tenders finalised under the BRS regime were cancelled and water allocations compromised, he said.

“The Congress could not complete even the remaining 10 per cent of work in two years. Instead of completing the pending projects, the Chief Minister is indulging in irresponsible and abusive rhetoric,” he said.

The BRS working president said Chandrashekhar Rao, who had transformed Palamuru by prioritising irrigation and ending large-scale migration, was launching another struggle to protect Telangana’s water rights. He announced that the former Chief Minister would soon visit Palamuru and appealed to people to rally behind him.

“Revanth Reddy has compromised Telangana’s rightful water allocations, without completing the pending projects and once again turned Palamuru into a district of migration,” he said.

Rama Rao criticised the scrapping of farmer welfare measures by the Congress government, which had stalled the Rythu Bandhu financial assistance to farmers.

He pointed to long queues for urea as evidence of agrarian distress, accusing the government of forcing farmers to beg for fertilizers. “Revanth Reddy has no concern for farmers. During KCR’s tenure, farmers received fertilizers as per their needs,” he said.

Accusing Revanth Reddy of prioritising commissions over farmers’ welfare, the former Minister said the Chief Minister came to power with unrealistic promises that are now being abandoned. He said the Congress leader was resorting to threats and abusive language when questioned about unfulfilled schemes, including



Mahalakshmi and pension promises.

“People have understood everything in these two years,” he remarked.

Stating that Revanth Reddy was obsessed with criticising Chandrashekhar Rao wherever he went, Rama Rao remarked that the Chief Minister’s frustration was evident. He challenged Revanth Reddy to publicly take an oath assuring uninterrupted supply of urea to farmers and implementation of the promised Rs 4,000 pension scheme.

He stated that wherever the Congress was in power, there was no progress, which was proved in Telangana once again. He said the Congress was left with only two more years, following which the BRS would return to power and restore development, prosperity and dignity to villages.

The former Minister said the Congress government was destroying a golden Telangana built during ten years of BRS governance. He said it was due to BRS policies that land values in Hyderabad had risen to as high as Rs 150 crore per acre.

He accused the Revanth Reddy government of eyeing nearly 9,300 acres of land in Hyderabad by allowing certain industries to monetise lands allotted to them by the State government.

“The successive governments allot land to industries at concessional rates in the larger interest of development and employment, but the Congress government is proposing policies that would allow arbitrary construction on industrial land by paying only a fraction of its value,” he criticised.

Rama Rao said villages which witnessed unprecedented development under the BRS regime, were now suffering with power shortages, stalled infrastructure development works and lack of basic amenities.

He said the Congress had suffered a setback in recent gram panchayat elections, and warned that further defeats awaited it in the Zilla Parishad and municipal polls.

He also called out the Congress-BJP nexus in Telangana, with leaders from both the parties jointly looting Telangana and targeting the BRS, while remaining silent on each others’ failures. He said the BJP’s silence on Congress’ unfulfilled promises and Revanth Reddy’s focus only on attacking BRS exposed this nexus.

Earlier, Rama Rao arrived in Nagarkurnool to a grand welcome by party cadres, with a bike rally stretching for kilometres and lasting over two hours.