TDP seeks probe into ‘swindling’ by TRS MLA

WARANGAL: Alleging that TRS dissident MLA Dugyala Srinivas Rao had embezzled huge sum of public money in the name of repairs to lakes and ponds, the TDP leaders demanded an inquiry by a sitting judge into the issue.

Addressing mediapersons here on Tuesday, former MLA of Chennur constituency N Sudhakar Rao, district party unit president Revuri Prakash Reddy alleged that the TRS leader misappropriated Rs 10 crore getting the proposals for repairs prepared by the engineering officials. The funds were sanctioned but none of the repair works were taken up, they charged.

Training their guns at the Government, they said that it did not wake up from its slumber unless a written complain was lodged about the issue. A departmental inquiry has been constituted. Bills had been recorded for repairing defunct lakes and lakes which do not irrigate even one acre of land, they said. Bills were drawn for repairing lakes that were submerged under the balancing reservoir, they said.

Several such incidents would come to light if a comprehensive inquiry is launched, the TD leaders said. Lashing out at the TRS MLA, they said Srinivas Rao presented and collected amounts for two bills for the same work.