Hyderabad, Feb. 27 -- Telangana irrigation minister Uttam Kumar Reddy on Thursday, February 27, condemned Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader especially Harish Rao who criticised rescue operations at the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) tunnel which collapsed, leading to eight workers getting buried in the tunnel.

The Telangana irrigation minister blamed the previous BRS government for the SLBC tunnel tragedy. He said that the BRS neglected the SLBC project for a decade and and accused it of abandoning the work and failing to complete the project. He stated that had the works finished on time, it would have provided 30 TMC of water to Telangana, benefiting three to four lakh acres of agricultural land in Nalgonda.

He also slammed ex-irr...