Hyderabad, May 25 -- Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS)'s working president KT Rama Rao has announced that if the party is voted into power, 24-hour safe drinking water supply to every household in Hyderabad city will be ensured.

Addressing a meeting of party cadres in Kukatpally on Sunday, KTR said the BRS-led government had earlier "transformed Telangana from a state plagued by severe power shortages into one with uninterrupted 24-hour electricity supply and would similarly guarantee round-the-clock drinking water supply to Hyderabad in the future."

Recalling the conditions before the formation of Telangana, KTR said, according to an official statement from the party, that the state has suffered under decades of Congress rule, with people f...