Overview
- After a heated Question Hour exchange on the Musi River project, BRS legislators walked out and declared they will boycott the rest of the winter session, alleging Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar’s partiality and denial of microphones.
- Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy confirmed his government will order an inquiry into the BRS-era shift of the Palamuru-Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme source from Jurala to Srisailam, alleging cost inflation, added lift stages and missing approvals.
- On the Assembly floor, the Chief Minister outlined phase-one Musi works covering 21 km from Osmansagar and Himayatsagar to Bapu Ghat at an estimated Rs 7,000 crore, with a start targeted in three months and completion in two years, while noting the DPR is still pending.
- BRS leaders condemned the Chief Minister’s statement that it would not be wrong if K. Chandrashekar Rao and T. Harish Rao were hanged for irrigation ‘injustice’, and accused him of using derogatory language and evading scrutiny.
- K. T. Rama Rao and other BRS figures challenged the Musi plan as opaque and harmful to the poor, alleging inflated costs and questionable contracting, while Kavitha urged KCR to attend the House to answer charges on water projects.