Congress MLC Venkat Balmoor made a PowerPoint presentation at Gandhi Bhavan in Hyderabad
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The Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme (KLIS) remained at the centre of Telangana’s political discourse through out the previous week and on Monday (July 13, 2026), with the ruling Congress and the Opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) stepping up their campaign over the utilisation of Godavari waters amid a prolonged dry spell.Both the BRS and the Congress organised two different events blaming each other over the non-utilisation of water at Kaleshwaram Scheme despite water being available in abundance. The BRS chose a blood donation camp while the Congress countered it with a powerpoint presentation on how crores went down the drain damaging the key barrage of the entire project.BRS’s stanceIt all started with the BRS adopting an aggressive posture by taking its leaders to the Medigadda barrage, arguing that lakhs of cusecs of floodwater in the Godavari were flowing into the sea even as several parts of the State were facing drought-like conditions due to poor monsoon rainfall. The party maintained that the government had failed to utilise the available floodwaters for irrigation.
