Will seek CBI probe in two hours if CM KCR gives permission to probe Medigadda barrage design flaws: Kishan Reddy

Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy attests he can get CBI to investigate design/construction flaws of Medigadda Barrage in 2 hrs if CM signs letter. He challenged KCR for public debate on Centre's assistance to TS & TRS/BRS Govt's work in last 9 yrs. BJP to have BC CM if elected & Jana Sena part of NDA. BJP to ensure corruption-free governance & job calendar, healthcare, wealth creation & education reform if elected.

Telangana BJP President and Union Minister for Tourism, Culture and Development of Northeast Region, G. Kishan Reddy, on November 5, he can get the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to investigate into the design and construction flaws of the Medigadda Barrage under the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme “within two hours” of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao giving the requisite permission.

“If the Chief Minister signs the letter at 2 p.m., by 4 p.m., I can request the CBI to begin the probe because the State Government has withdrawn permission for the investigative agency to function here. The only other way the CBI can investigate is if it gets an order from the High Court of the Supreme Court,” he attested at ‘Meet the Press’ programme organised by the Press Club of Hyderabad.

The BJP leader was responding to a question about the role of the Centre in the Kaleshwaram project since it has given the requisite permissions and also provided seven lakh crore rupees loan to this and other works in Telangana in the last nine years.

“The various central financial institutions including the Power Corporation of India and others only look at the repayment capacity of the respective States when they disburse loans in a democratic polity likes ours. The loans were given based on the State Government’s usage of water projections to benefit the farmers and people,” he maintained.

However, “KCR has totally sunk the Telangana people and the Kaleshwaram project acting like a ‘super engineer’ and disregarding the engineering experts advice and wasting thousands of crores of rupees in going ahead with the works without transparency and accountability,” said the Minister.

Mr. Kishan Reddy also challenged the Chief Minister for a public debate on the Central Government’s assistance to TS and the work done by the TRS/BRS Government in the last nine years at the Press Club or at the Martyrs Memorial in front of the secretariat at any date or time of the latter’s convenience for any number of hours.

The BJP leader once again tried to debunk the ‘BRS-BJP’ alleged relationship and reasons for KCR’s daughter and MLC K. Kavitha not being arrested in the Delhi liquor scam rather forcefully. “The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had questioned former Congress Party presidents Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case for several hours. Were they arrested? Does it mean there is a bonhomie between the BJP and the Congress Party?,” he questioned.