Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy launched a sharp attack on both the BJP-led Centre and former CM K. Chandrashekar Rao (KCR), accusing them of politicising the Polavaram-Banakacherla Link Project (PBLP) to breathe life into the “dying” BRS party. Addressing Congress MLAs and senior leaders at Praja Bhavan, Reddy called the PBLP a strategic tool used by the Centre to marginalise the Congress in Telangana while reviving BRS by stoking inter-state water disputes. He pointed fingers at Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy for allegedly colluding with BRS and avoiding joint meetings with Congress ministers in Delhi. Revanth further invited BRS leaders, including KCR and Harish Rao, to a debate on the floor of the Assembly regarding the injustice meted out to Telangana in Krishna-Godavari water sharing.

Responding to Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu’s claims that surplus Godavari waters should be shared downstream without Telangana’s objection, Revanth questioned why AP, being downstream in Krishna basin, opposes Telangana’s upstream projects like the Palamuru-Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme (PRLIS). He stated that AP draws 90 TMC of water from Krishna via the Pattiseema project, while Telangana is yet to fully utilise its allocated 299 TMC, primarily due to incomplete BRS-era projects such as Kalwakurthy, Nettempadu, SLBC, Bhima, Koilsagar, and PRLIS. He held KCR responsible for Telangana’s limited access to Krishna waters, accusing him of formally submitting to the Centre in both 2015 and 2020 that 299 TMC was sufficient for the state—a decision that has significantly weakened Telangana’s negotiating position.

Revanth also revisited the 2016 Apex Council meeting, where KCR had proposed diverting 3,000 TMC of unutilised Godavari water. He alleged that this opened the door for Andhra Pradesh, then led by Naidu, to commission a WAPCOS report recommending diversion of 400 TMC from Godavari to Rayalaseema, Nellore, and Prakasam districts. He blamed KCR for enabling AP’s case by engaging with successive AP CMs, including YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, and supporting the diversion idea. Criticising the BRS government’s handling of the Kaleshwaram project, Revanth said it delivered minimal irrigation benefits despite spending over ₹1 lakh crore and burdening the state with massive electricity costs. Concluding, Revanth called out the KCR family’s “habitual lying” and accused them of using the PBLP dispute as a political stunt to resuscitate BRS after its 2023 defeat.