Overview

• Eatala Rajender appeared before the Ghose Commission on June 6 and told investigators his involvement was confined to releasing budgeted funds, while attributing project decisions to the Cabinet.
• The commission’s mandate has been extended through July 31 and will hear former irrigation minister T. Harish Rao on June 9 and ex-chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on June 11 after examining over 100 engineers and officials.
• Investigators are probing alleged irregularities across planning, design and construction phases of the Medigadda, Annaram and Sundilla barrages following a partial collapse of Medigadda piers in March 2024.
• Telangana’s irrigation minister has sent more than a dozen letters to central bodies and signaled plans to approach the Supreme Court to halt Andhra Pradesh’s unapproved Banakacherla interlinking project.
• BRS leaders including K. T. Rama Rao and T. Harish Rao have defended the project’s technical shift to Medigadda, accused the ruling Congress of misinformation and demanded public release of the commission’s findings.