India, Dec. 29 -- The winter session of the Telangana Legislative Assembly, beginning on Monday, is expected to be stormy as it comes amid a heated war of words between the ruling Congress and the opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) over river water issues.

The water issues are likely to be major items on the agenda of the session as BRS has recently announced an agitation to protect "Telangana's water rights", while the Congress Government challenged the opposition party for debate in the Assembly.

BRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao, also known as KCR, who stayed away from public events during the last two years, addressed a press conference recently and said Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy's regime failed to put pressure on the Unio...