Notice drama won't shake us, everything has been explained: BRS Working Prez
Hyderabad, June 9 (UNI) A few hours after appearing before Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose Commission probing the alleged irregularities in the execution of Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project (KLIP) by former Irrigation Minister and BRS MLA T. Harish Rao, the party on Monday evening denounced as "politically motivated harassment" the issuance of notices by investigating bodies.
The Commission had earlier also served notice to BRS President and former Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) to appear before it on Wednesday.
In a statement, KTR said 'These notices are simply attempts to irritate and distract us'. We have already stated everything that needs to be said. Today, Harish Rao presented all the facts before the commission in full detail'.
"Commission has nothing new to ask KCR — everything that needed to be said has already been said,' KTR, the son of KCR, declared.
"KCR achieved in four years what Congress couldn't in decades', he pointed out.
Drawing comparisons, KTR noted that while Congress governments took decades to construct major projects like Bhakra Nangal, Nagarjuna Sagar, Narmada, and SRSP, KCR completed Kaleshwaram in record time.
'This is no small accomplishment. Had this occurred in another country, KCR would have been decorated with the highest awards. But here, the very parties that failed to deliver for decades are trying to demonize a leader who delivered the impossible,' he said.
Criticising the Congress regime under Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, KTR said, 'They came to power by making 420 fake promises, only to betray the public'.
'This Congress government is leading the state down a dangerous, destructive path,' he said
He further accused Revanth Reddy of using media manipulation to mislead the public. 'This media-management trickery cannot cover up their incompetence forever,' he added. UNI KNR NST SSP
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