Hyderabad, July 1 -- Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy said that the politics surrounding the Polavaram-Banakacherla Link Project (PBLP) is a strategic political move of the Centre, to breathe life into Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), a party which he felt is at the brink of extinction.

Irrigation minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy and experts gave a presentation to Congress MLAs, MLCs and senior leaders at Praja Bhavan on Tuesday, July 1, on the projects on Krishna and Godavari basins, and PBLP being proposed by the Andhra Pradesh government.

In his concluding remarks, the chief minister accused the Centre of trying to "marginalise the Congress" by deriving political benefit from the Godavari river dispute between the two Telugu states,...