BRS seeks SIT probe into Medigadda Barrage harm

General secretary of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) R.S. Praveen Kumar has demanded that the Telangana authorities institute an inquiry by a particular investigation workforce (SIT) into the sinking of some piers of the Medigadda Barrage of the Kaleshwaram undertaking.

Addressing a press convention in Hyderabad on Saturday (August 16, 2025), he claimed that each the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) conspired to break the construction with a bigger political plan to dethrone the BRS Government. An assistant govt engineer manning the construction had complained to Mahadevpur police station on October 22, 2023, stating that loud sounds had come from the barrage on October 21 earlier than some piers had crippled.

The undertaking engineer had additionally expressed suspicion that there might be some anti-social parts behind the loud noise earlier than the construction was broken, the previous IPS officer stated, including that sinking of barrage wouldn’t generate loud sound.

He stated that Medgadda, Annaram and Sundilla Barrages of the Kaleshwaram undertaking had withstood a report flood, highest within the final 500 years (practically 30 lakh cusecs), in July 2022 and no harm was triggered. The National Dam Safety Authority (NDSA) consultants had arrived in response to a letter addressed by Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy but it surely didn’t even make a point out of the loud noise earlier than the construction suffered harm.

Even the Mahadevepur police had didn’t take up any investigation into the undertaking engineer’s grievance and an examination of name data/knowledge of some key leaders of the Congress and BJP may have revealed extra info, he stated.