Overview
- BRS working president K. T. Rama Rao led a high‑profile visit to the Kannepalli pump house that, on Sunday, was repeatedly blocked by police with barricades and preventive arrests before BRS cadres forced the convoy through.
- At the pump site Rama Rao accused the Congress government of letting large Godavari flows go unused and warned the BRS would lay siege and mobilise up to 50,000 people if the Kannepalli pumps were not switched on immediately.
- The ruling Congress has presented a consolidated figure of about Rs 8.21 lakh crore for Telangana’s outstanding debt and unpaid liabilities and says a recent debt restructuring cut near‑term repayment obligations and saved Rs 22,142 crore.
- BRS leaders including T. Harish Rao reject the Rs 8.21 lakh crore tally and insist borrowings during their decade in office total about Rs 4.17 lakh crore, while also highlighting contradictory Congress figures for post‑2023 borrowings and demanding an Assembly debate.
- The clash links two central issues — disputed accounting rules that change headline debt totals (FRBM loans, state guarantees, SPV liabilities, pending bills) and emergency water access for farmers during weak monsoon forecasts — raising risks to irrigation, public trust in finances, and local law and order.