The YSR Congress Party government was spreading falsehoods about the Polavaram Project, charged TDP leader and former Water Resources Minister Devineni Umamaheswara Rao.
Addressing the media here on Friday, Mr. Rao said present incumbent P. Anil Kumar announced in the Assembly that project work was being supervised by the Central Water Resources Ministry and the Polavaram Project Authority (PPA), but now suddenly the government had stopped work without any reason.
The TDP leader alleged that fresh tenders were being called so that contracts for the power house and earthwork could be given to people close to Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy.
Farmers would be adversely affected if the project missed the deadline, he said. It was common knowledge that Mr. Jagan sought award of contract for the Polavaram power project to the person recommended by him when K. Rosaiah was Chief Minister and when the request was rejected, he launched the YSRCP, Mr. Rao said.
Why did the Raymond Peter Committee not take a look at the tenders finalised during the rule of the Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy government, he asked.