Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao took a tour to the flood-hit Bhadrachalam on Sunday. while speaking in a public meet, KCR made a weird comment calling the phenomenon of cloudburst a ‘foreign conspiracy’.
After the tour, the Chief Minister KCR said that the intensity with which there was rainfall and the floods in the state’s Godavari region were the result of a cloudburst, suspected to be a “conspiracy planned by other countries”.
After the tour, addressing the reporters, Mr. Rao said : “There is this new phenomenon called cloudburst. People say there is some conspiracy, we don’t know how far that is true, that people from other countries are deliberately doing cloudburst in our country at certain locations. In the past they did it near Kashmir, at Ladakh-Leh, then in Uttarakhand and now we are getting some reports that they are doing it in the Godavari region.”
However, a cloudburst is a sudden heavy rain, which usually means an extreme amount of rain over a very short period that can lead to flood.
The whole temple town came under the grip of the rainfall. Continuous rains caused inundation in almost all the areas of the temple town. The water level reached more than 70 feet. This situation happened 32 years ago. The water level reached 75.6 in 1986.
Warning sere given right from when the water level reached 53 feet. It reached 70.50. However, the levels have come down to 60 feet on Sunday.
The Chief Minister personally visited the flood-hit areas. Thereafter, he performed “shanti puja” for ‘Gangamma’, Later, he went to Eturunagaram.
CM KCR held a review meeting with the ministers, MLS’s and the local officials.
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