BRS Working President K. T. Rama Rao (KTR) lashed out at the Congress government on Thursday, decrying the Justice P. C. Ghose Commission notices served to his father, former Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao, over the Kaleshwaram irrigation project. KTR branded the move a “political drama” engineered by Congress and the BJP to distract from governance failures.
“After 17 months of neglecting core public issues, they now pounce on high-profile targets to shift the narrative,” KTR told reporters at the party headquarters. “This is vendetta politics, pure and simple.”
Commissions Over Governance
Charging that “democratic governance has given way to a regime of commissions,” KTR cited remarks by Congress MLAs who admit that virtually no government work proceeds without such inquiries. He argued these endless probes stall development and undermine public trust.
Tragedy Response Under Scrutiny
KTR also criticized the state’s handling of recent calamities—the SLBC tunnel collapse in which eight people died, and the stalled Sunkishala reservoir project in Nalgonda. He accused the administration of being “so obsessed with commissions that it forgot to mount a rescue or relief effort.”
“They lack even the basic competence to retrieve bodies or aid victims,” he added.
Delivering on Promises
Defiant, KTR vowed that the BRS would not be silenced by legal notices:
“We will keep pressing on the six guarantees—gold ration, ₹4,000 pensions, and more—until they are fulfilled.”
Faith in Judiciary
While dismissing the notices as “feathers in the wind,” KTR expressed confidence in judicial fairness and predicted that public outrage over the government’s performance would grow. “In the end, truth will prevail and the people of Telangana will expose this failed administration,” he said. As the Kaleshwaram inquiry unfolds, KTR’s robust defense signals a fierce political showdown ahead, with both sides staking claims over Telangana’s development trajectory.
