BRS MLA Sudheer Reddy has told Telangana voters not to give Chief Minister Revanth Reddy a second term, accusing the Congress government of ignoring the hardships people are facing across the state.

Speaking to reporters on Friday, Sudheer Reddy said the government had run out of ideas for governing and had effectively given up. He pointed to the Chief Minister’s instruction to farmers not to sow a second crop as proof that the administration was failing the countryside. His message to voters was blunt: do not hand Revanth Reddy another mandate.

The sharpest charge was aimed at the Kaleshwaram project, the irrigation scheme built under former Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao, popularly known as KCR. Sudheer Reddy alleged that the Congress government had not carried out repairs out of a spirit of vendetta. In his telling, the project only came back to the government’s mind now that drought conditions had set in across Telangana.

Drought, dams and a dispute over the facts

Sudheer Reddy also took aim at the state’s approach to water infrastructure. He said the government had celebrated over the Tummidihetti project even though no decision had been received from the Centre. That, he argued, showed a pattern of announcing victories before the substance arrived.

On the Medigadda barrage, he said repairs should not take three months. In his view, the government had spent three years dragging its feet and was only now talking about repairs. He also said the Central Water Resources organisation had stated that the Annaram and Sundilla barrages were in good condition, yet the government had ignored that assessment, failed to fill them with water and, in his words, neglected them.

Hyderabad’s water crisis

For Hyderabad residents, the most immediate impact is the drinking water situation. Sudheer Reddy said the city’s drinking water troubles had begun because of Congress failures and claimed that 2.30 lakh tankers had already been used. He framed the figure as evidence that the government had not planned for the crisis and was now paying for that neglect in the form of emergency supply.

The Telangana angle here is direct. The water shortage in the capital and the drought conditions in the countryside are, in the BRS MLA’s account, two sides of the same failure. Families in the city and farmers in the villages are being asked to live with the consequences of decisions he says were delayed or never taken.

A call to voters and a challenge in the Assembly

Sudheer Reddy said anyone sitting in the Chief Minister’s chair needs a broad outlook. He reminded listeners that when Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy launched the Aarogyasri scheme, KCR continued it. The comparison was meant to show that, in his view, earlier leaders built on what came before, while the present government is erasing what it did not start.

He was equally clear that Revanth Reddy cannot wipe out KCR’s footprints. Whatever the government’s intentions, he said, the Kaleshwaram project and the legacy attached to it will not disappear from the state’s record.

Sudheer Reddy said his party is ready for a debate on the Kaleshwaram project in the Assembly. His demand was specific. He wants time to speak and says the microphone should not be cut for BRS members. He also accused the government of trying, in one way or another, to stop BRS legislators from attending the House.

The political message is unmistakable. The BRS is asking voters to reject the current government at the next opportunity, and it is asking the Assembly to give its members a fair hearing on the very project the Congress government is being accused of neglecting. Whether the Assembly debate happens, and whether the water and farm crises ease, will be the next tests of those claims.

This is a political statement from one MLA, and the claims about repairs, dam assessments, tanker use and the Centre’s position on Tummidihetti are his allegations as reported. The government’s response was not included in the source material. Readers should weigh the accusations alongside any official reply as it comes.