Hyderabad, Friday, June 25, 2010: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah held a meeting tonight with Telangana Congress MPs and Ministers in order to restrain party leaders from going public with allegations of large-scale corruption in irrigation projects in the state.

Major Irrigation Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah, who has become a subject of attack from his own party colleagues, attended the meeting along with his department officials to “present the facts” and “clear the air” over major irrigation projects like Polavaram and Pranahita-Chevella, sources who attended the meeting said.

While Higher Education Minister D Sridhar Babu and Information Technology Minister Komatireddy Venkat Reddy were also present, the Andhra Pradesh Congress MPs’ Forum convenor Ponnam Prabhakar led eight Lok Sabha members to the meeting.

The Chief Minister reportedly told the MPs and Ministers that “some inimical forces” within the party were behind the vicious campaign launched against his government, sources said.

(Agency)