Everyone is equal before law irrespective of stature, Congress tells BRS working president KTR

Hyderabad: The Congress on Wednesday strongly hit back at BRS working president KT Rama Rao for questioning summons issued to his father and former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao by the PC Ghose commission inquiring into the alleged irregularities in the Kaleshwaram irrigation project.

Revenue minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy said that anyone who committed a mistake warranting action as per the law must face legal consequences, irrespective of their stature.

“The previous BRS govt misused projects such as Kaleshwaram, Dharani and Mission Bhagiratha to financially strengthen the BRS party. KCR, the self-proclaimed father of Telangana, is also not above the law and will have to face action if he has committed any wrongdoing in the project,” Ponguleti alleged.

Congress MP Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy said that all those who appeared before the Ghose commission had agreed to an open court hearing, except KCR.

“Why did KCR ask for a one-on-one questioning by the Ghose commission? KTR is unable to digest that his father was required to appear before the commission. The Congress govt does not believe in vendetta politics. It is the Congress that gave statehood to Telangana, and without it, neither KCR nor KTR could have become the CM and minister, respectively. It is the previous BRS govt that plunged the state into a debt trap and inflated the Kaleshwaram project cost from Rs 35,000 crore to Rs one lakh crore,” he alleged.

“If KCR had constructed the Kaleshwaram project in China with such inferior quality, he would have faced the death sentence,” Kiran Kumar Reddy alleged.

Earlier in the day, in an informal chat with reporters in New Delhi, chief minister A Revanth Reddy said the Congress never indulged in vendetta politics since it came to power in Telangana.