MEIL Was Called ‘Mafia’ By Cong, Now Gets Major Contracts, Says KTR

Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has demanded the Telangana government to blacklist Megha Engineering & Infrastructures Limited (MEIL) for the collapse of the retaining wall of the under-construction intake well and pump house complex at Sunkishala project and cancellation of tender awarded to MEIL and Raghava Construction of Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy for Narayanpet-Kodangal Lift Irrigation Project. BRS working president KT Rama Rao on Wednesday questioned the Congress government why it failed to blacklist MEIL despite the recommendation of the inquiry committee, which probed the Sunkishala incident.

The former minister also alleged a scam in awarding two packages of Rs 4,350 crore in the Narayanpet-Kodangal project to MEIL and Raghava Construction.

KTR, as the former minister is popularly known, reminded Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy that when he was in opposition, he used to call MEIL ‘East India Company’. He said Congress party leaders had termed

MEIL as ‘mafia’. “Why have you not blacklisted MEIL despite the committee formed by your own government concluding that negligence by the contractor led to the accident at Sunkishala and why have you awarded a contract to the same company for Narayanpet-Kodangal Lift Irrigation

Project,” he asked.