The Centre was never going to give a ‘national project status’ to the Kaleshwaram irrigation project as it is based on a “wrong design and has engineering defaults” which has led to the motor pump houses getting submerged in the recent floods, said Union Minister for Water Resources Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Tuesday.
“The project was built without taking any permissions including the environmental clearance and has been used as a milch cow for making money. To cover up the failures and corruption, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao wants a national project status. Why should Prime Minister Modi bear the cross for an illegal project built by KCR,” he questioned, addressing a public meeting to launch the TS BJP President Bandi Sanjay Kumar’s third stage of ‘Praja Sangrama Yatra’ at Yadadri.
Extending the greetings of Mr. Modi and party president J. P. Nadda to Mr. Sanjay Kumar for the success of the programme, he claimed that while the country has been on a development path for the last eight years and Telangana has “fallen behind due to a single family rule, misuse of official machinery, police overaction and atrocities”.
