Ten young men from Godavarikhani completed an eight-day cycle expedition of about 400 kilometres, riding from Medigadda in the Kaleshwaram project to Kondapochamma Sagar. Their journey ended with a direct message to K Chandrashekar Rao, the BRS chief, that farmers want him back as Telangana’s chief minister.

The team reached Erravalli on Wednesday, November 4, and sat down with KCR at his residence there. They laid out what they had seen along the route and handed him Godavari water they had collected during the ride.

Eight days on the road

The ride was not a symbolic lap around town. The group covered around 400 kilometres on bicycles over eight days, moving through rural stretches of the state. They followed the Kaleshwaram canals and cut across farm fields, where they said they saw crops withering for lack of water.

Along the way, the riders stopped in villages and spoke with people directly. They saw dried-out crops, dead borewells and farmers struggling with power shortages that made irrigation harder. For a group of young cyclists, the physical toll of those kilometres was matched by what they witnessed on the ground.

The youths told KCR that they saw farmers in distress firsthand. To make the point clear, they showed him dried paddy ears, holding them up as evidence of what they had encountered on their journey.

The message they carried to Erravalli

The team was led by Boddu Ravinder, a former corporator and the BRS town president in Godavarikhani, together with Uppu Rajkumar. The group said the ride was built around one concern: irrigation water, and the suffering that comes when fields go dry.

They framed the crisis in political terms. According to the youths, the agriculture sector across Telangana had suffered badly under the united state’s irrigation shortages before KCR’s decade in power. They credited his years in office with major irrigation project construction, which they said turned farming into something closer to a festival. They then contrasted that period with the present, which they described as one of neglect under the Congress government.

The group also said they heard anger from ordinary people during the trip. They said farmers, women, and people from different professions and communities raised their problems along the route. According to the riders, many voiced dissatisfaction with the Congress government and with what they called anti-farmer policies pursued by chief minister Revanth Reddy.

The youths said the ride was also a response to farmer suicides, water shortages and the wider collapse of crops. They framed the journey as a way of bringing those concerns directly to KCR rather than leaving them on the roadside.

Why the ride reached Erravalli

The most unusual part of the story is the choice of destination. Instead of ending at a government office or a public square, the riders chose KCR’s home as the final stop. They brought Godavari water, a symbol that many in Telangana connect with the state’s irrigation identity, and placed it in his hands.

KCR received the team and praised them for taking the time to learn about people’s problems and bring their aspirations to him. He wished them well and said that the hopes and opinions of the people would be fulfilled. The exchange was brief in the reporting, but the symbolism was clear: the youths came to represent a view that the former chief minister still has a constituency among farmers.

Farmers want KCR to become chief minister again, because only with him can Telangana agriculture return to its former glory.

The line above sums up the demand the riders said they heard repeatedly on the road. It is a political claim, and the youths presented it as the view of the people they met, not as their own separate position.

What the ride shows about the water fight

The cycle expedition arrived at a moment when irrigation remains a central political issue in Telangana. The riders’ focus on the Kaleshwaram project, the Medigadda starting point, and Kondapochamma Sagar ties their journey directly to the state’s major irrigation infrastructure. Their argument is that the infrastructure built under KCR should be delivering for farmers, and that failures in water and power are hurting crops now.

For readers in Telangana, the story is less about the distance than about the frustration behind it. Ten young men chose to spend eight days in the open, moving through dry fields, to make a case that they believe farmers are not being heard. Whether their message moves voters is a separate question, but the ride itself was an act of visible political commitment.

The team’s account also highlights the human side of the water crisis. Dried paddy, failed borewells and power problems are not abstract policy issues for the people they described meeting. They are daily losses that show up in fields and in household finances.

As of this report, the youths have delivered their message and their water, and KCR has responded with appreciation. What comes next will depend on whether the demand for his return grows beyond a single cycle ride.