Hyderabad, Apr 22 (PTI) BRS leader K T Rama Rao on Wednesday said the High Court’s order that no action be taken against party president K Chandrasekhar Rao and others based on findings of PC Ghose Commission on alleged irregularities in Kaleshwaram project is a slap on the face of the Congress government.
The High Court’s order “applied brakes to the political conspiracies” of the government, he said in a statement.
He said Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, who has kept the Kaleshwaram project useless for the last two years, should carry out repairs to the damaged Medigadda barrage and provide irrigation facilities to the farmers.
Welcoming the HC order, BRS workers burst crackers at the party headquarters here.
However, ruling Congress president in Telangana, B Mahesh Kumar Goud, said the High Court has not given any clean chit to those responsible for the alleged corruption in the project.
Goud, who spoke to reporters in Delhi, said the High Court did not find fault with either the appointment of the Commission or its report. The court has only pointed out procedural lapses in the report, he said.
The High Court has also not found fault with the reports of the National Dam Safety Authority (NDSA) and the state’s Vigilance and Enforcement Wing over damage to the project barrages, Goud said.
Meanwhile, BJP leader and Union Minister of State for Home Bandi Sanjay Kumar alleged “compromise politics” and “quid pro quo” between CM Revanth Reddy and BRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR), in the matter.
The state government has failed to present effective arguments in the High Court, he said.
Alleging that Revanth Reddy is trying to shield KCR, he said Congress had in the past alleged that there were irregularities to the tune of Rs 1 lakh crore in the Kaleshwaram project, but the state government is now seeking a CBI probe into “irregularities” of only Rs 9,000 crore.
In a major relief to KCR and three others, the Telangana High Court on Wednesday directed that no action be taken against them based on findings of the PC Ghose Commission, which probed the alleged irregularities in the execution of the Kaleshwaram irrigation project. PTI SJR SJR ADB
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