Hyderabad, June 24 -- Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLA T Harish Rao on Wednesday, June 24, wrote to Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, accusing the Telangana government of failing to protect the state's water rights in the Tungabhadra river and demanding immediate action against what he called illegal projects being built by Karnataka upstream.

In a sharply worded letter, the Siddipet MLA alleged that Karnataka was constructing three bridge-cum-barrages on the Tungabhadra - at Kuridi (2 TMC), Chikkalaparvai (2.5 TMC) and Chikkalamachi (5 TMC) - without obtaining mandatory approvals from the Central Water Commission (CWC), the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB), or the consent of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

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