YSRTP chief Y S Sharmila, who announced to conduct of a peaceful march from Jantar Mantar to the Parliament in the national capital against alleged corruption in the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project in Telangana, was detained by the police.
In a video released by ANI, the Delhi police can be seen escorting Sharmila into a white van along with a few supporters who were raising slogans against the KCR government.
Speaking to the media in Hyderabad, Sharmila expressed disappointment against the authorities for not initiating any action, audit, or investigation into the alleged irregularities which she claimed was “already in public”, she said that she had to resort to this step to draw the attention of the entire nation and the Parliamentarians towards the “biggest fiasco of Telangana.”
I will walk from Jantar Mantar to the Parliament House to let the entire country realise the magnitude of the scam and our tireless fight in the last two years. The project cost was escalated from Rs 38,500 crores to Rs 1.20 lakh crores but yesterday, the BRS minister claimed only 1.5 lakh acres of land had been irrigated. This shows that Kaleshwaram is the biggest flop show but filled the pockets of one contractor and one family,” she alleged.
The Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project or KLIP is a multi-purpose irrigation project on the Godavari River in Kaleshwaram, Bhupalpally, Telangana.
She alleged that Chief Minister KCR is “full of lies and dishonesty.”
