Overview
- The Andhra Pradesh government called Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy’s claim that he got the Rayalaseema Lift Project halted “factually incorrect and misleading.”
- State officials said directions from the National Green Tribunal and the Union government date back to 2020 and that work had been stopped before N. Chandrababu Naidu took office in 2024.
- Revanth Reddy told the Telangana Assembly he had pressured both Andhra Pradesh and the Centre to halt the project and proposed a multi‑party fact‑finding team to verify the status.
- The Andhra Pradesh government said the project was initiated without mandatory statutory clearances and pledged to place documentary evidence in the public domain.
- Reiterating it would not compromise on water rights for Rayalaseema, Andhra Pradesh also faced calls from a Rayalaseema forum to issue a firm rebuttal and safeguard the region’s interests.