Hyderabad, March 5 -- Social activist Dr Lubna Sarwath on Thursday, March 5, urged Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy not to inaugurate what she termed the "fraud, destruction and wastage of public money" carried out by the Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA) in its restoration of the historic Bum-Rukn-Ud-Dowla lake.

The Chief Minister is scheduled to inaugurate the restored lake at 7.30 pm on Sunday, March 8.

Citing articles quoting author Dr Mansee Bal Bhargava, as well as Bhargava's own YouTube clips commenting on the lake's restoration, Sarwath said that despite HYDRAA having invited Bhargava to conduct a workshop in July 2024, all her guidelines had since been discarded, "just as it had dumped Bum...