- Sunday, January 12, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
THE southern Indian state of Telangana is witnessing heavy rainfall and some of top its political leaders, including chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao or ‘KCR’, were seen in the thick of actions, some even unconventional, while visiting the flood-affected areas on Sunday (17).
Rao, who leads the state’s ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), went to the holy town of Bhadrachalam in the state where he offered ‘Shanti Puja’ (offerings to calm down) to the River Godavari in spate because of heavy downpour. The chief minister inspected the river from atop a bridge along with some of his government’s ministers and legislators.
#Telangana CM #KCR making an offering to Godavari river as part of Shanti Pooja while inspecting the flood situation. Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan holding a dead fish while touring a flood affected area. pic.twitter.com/CE3HLKTCnt
— Rahul Devulapalli (@rahulscribe) July 17, 2022
He then visited a rehabilitation centre set up for those affected by the flood situation. The victims were assured of medical and other assistance. Rao, who also had a review meeting with his ministers over the flood situation in the state, was supposed to do an aerial survey of the affected areas but called it off later because of inclement weather and paid the visit by road.
The chief minister also sparked a controversy by remarking at a public meeting in Bhadrachalam town that cloudbursts could be engineered by “foreign entities” to “destabilise” the country. The remark left netizens amused and they came up with funny reactions.
Is this the Artificial CloudBurst Technology CM KCR was talking about? ? pic.twitter.com/yJ2k8pqxpw
— Adamya (@TheAdamya) July 17, 2022
If RW sees a foreign hand in man made acts, liberalverse incessantly mocks them but when current sovereign of liberalism Shri #KCR Garu sees foreign conspiracy in a #cloudburst ?, intellectuals are busy stuffing their mouth with ladoos he has provided after doing a Shanti Puja.
— Bikash Jhawar (@BikashJhawar) July 18, 2022
Lol… ?… KCR suspects foreign hands behind Godavari floods , which possibly has happened due to cloud busting by foreigners! #Telanganarains #TelanganaCM #TelanganaFloods #cloudburst pic.twitter.com/pSIZsnBlvv
— keshaboina sridhar (@keshaboinasri) July 17, 2022
The world leaders are worried ??….that who among us has #KCR #covertly informed him about #cloudburst plan over #Telangana .. ??@KTRTRS @bandisanjay_bjp @Arvindharmapuri @aruna_dk @Raviyadav_bjp pic.twitter.com/tX6kRQKffK
— Gangala Radhakrishna (BJP ) (@alwaysmeeradha) July 17, 2022
Modiji instead of buying Rafales.. Fighter jets can we do cloud burst in Pakistan and China..
Today we came to know that we can do cloud burst in other countries.
Russia is wasting time and ammunition instead they should do cloud burst in Ukraine.. ??#kcrcloudburst— Sanatani Thakur ?? (@SanggitaT) July 17, 2022
Meanwhile, Tamilisai Soundarraajan, the governor of Telangana, also visited Bhadradi-Kothagudem district in the eastern part of the state which has been hit by flood. She also interacted with the affected people and visited relief camps and assured people that she would take up the flood situation with the state government to find a permanent solution to their woes. She also cancelled her scheduled visit to capital Delhi to tour the flood-hit areas.
A unique experience to catch a fish in rain water at Pamulapalli Village in Badrachalam District #Telangana and gave it to the local senior citizen.#TelanganaFloods #godavarifloods pic.twitter.com/yDHUrCWKqi
— Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan (@DrTamilisaiGuv) July 17, 2022
The governor also tweeted her unique experience of catching a fish in rain water in one of the villages in flood-hit Telangana.
