General secretary of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) R.S. Praveen Kumar has demanded that the Telangana government institute an inquiry by a special investigation team (SIT) into the sinking of a few piers of the Medigadda Barrage of the Kaleshwaram project.
Addressing a press conference in Hyderabad on Saturday (August 16, 2025), he claimed that both the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) conspired to damage the structure with a larger political plan to dethrone the BRS Government. An assistant executive engineer manning the structure had complained to Mahadevpur police station on October 22, 2023, stating that loud sounds had come from the barrage on October 21 before some piers had crippled.
