Hyderabad, June 17 -- Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has written to Union Coal and Mines Minister G Kishan Reddy seeking his intervention to release a pending loan instalment for the Hyderabad Metro Rail project, even as the Union minister earlier saying that technical issues remained unresolved and that the state was resorting to a blame game.

In a seven-page letter to Kishan Reddy, the Chief Minister said the state government had fulfilled all preconditions for the takeover of Hyderabad Metro Phase-I and for the proposed Phase-II expansion, but that funds sanctioned by the Indian Railway Finance Corporation (IRFC) had not come through despite repeated follow-up.

What the CM's letter says

The first instalment of the IRFC loa...