What is the Rs 1 Lakh Crore Kaleshwaram project & why has it become a political flashpoint?

The over Rs 1 lakh crore-Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project — one of the showpiece projects of the K. Chandrashekar Rao-led BRS government in Telangana — has become a hot button political issue after sinking of six piers of one of the three barrages at Medigadda village in Karimnagar district last month, just four years after it was commissioned.
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