Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], November 29 (ANI): YSR Telangana Get together president YS Sharmila was on Tuesday detained by the Hyderabad Police when she was approaching Pragati Bhavan to gherao the official residence of Chief Minister Ok Chandrasekhar Rao.
She was detained from Somajiguda and delivered to SR Nagar Police station in Hyderabad.
Earlier than Sharmila was detained, Police towed away her automotive with the assistance of a crane, whilst she was sitting inside it protesting in opposition to the Telangana CM KCR.
In the meantime, Sharmila’s husband Anil Kumar arrived at SR Nagar police station to fulfill her after was detained from Somajiguda.
“Now we have each proper to protest,” Kumar advised reporters.
Final month, YS Sharmila, YSR Telangana Get together president and sister of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy alleged corruption within the Kaleshwaram Carry Irrigation mission in Telangana and described it as India’s greatest rip-off.
Sharmila alleged {that a} main a part of the cash invested within the Rs 80,500-crore mission was embezzled.
Addressing a press convention, Sharmila mentioned, “I’m right here to focus on the most important rip-off in India. Kaleshwaram Carry Irrigation Challenge rip-off is greater as it’s not simply digital cash but additionally bodily cash that has price the exchequer. The tune of cash concerned is Rs 1.2 Lakh crore.”
She additional claimed that the irrigation mission was initially the concept of her father YS Rajasekhara Reddy, however has now been mangled.
“Kaleshwaram Challenge was the brainchild of my father nevertheless it has been distorted in each kind. Of the Rs 1.2 lakh crore invested on this, round Rs 1 lakh crore got here from central monetary establishments. We met CBI Director and he assigned a DIG rank officer to look into the corruption: added Sharmila.
Telangana Chief Minister Ok Chandrashekar Rao in June 2019 inaugurated the Kaleshwaram Carry Irrigation mission in Bhupalpally district, billed because the world’s largest multi-stage carry irrigation scheme. The Challenge was mired in controversies since its inception.
With an estimated price of Rs 80,500 crore, the KLIP is the most expensive irrigation mission taken up by a state. It’s designed to learn farmers within the district of Karimnagar, Nizamabad, Warangal, Medak, Nalgonda and Ranga Reddy. (ANI)
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