Hyderabad, June 14 -- Union Minister of State Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Sunday, June 14, credited Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and the state government for helping unlock central funds for rural road development in his constituency, even as his convoy was caught in an embarrassing episode a day earlier when a vehicle got stuck in a pothole on the Karimnagar-Sircilla road.

Bandi Sanjay was speaking to reporters at Mamidipally in the Sircilla area after laying the foundation stone for the Vemulawada-Sirikonda road widening project.

'Centre-state cooperation'

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader said he had secured Rs 22,000 crore in central funds for the region, of which about Rs 10,000 crore had already been spent on road projects with...