: Congress leaders celebrated Independence Day by hoisting the tri-colour and distributing sweets to party workers. PCC general secretary Naraharisetti Narasimha Rao hoisted the national flag and paid floral tributes to the portrait of Mahatma Gandhi.
PCC official spokesperson K. Sivaji and general secretary Meesala Rajeswara Rao criticised the TDP for “boasting” about inter-linking of rivers. They alleged that the TDP government received huge kickbacks from contractors who received extra funds for the reported completion of the lift irrigation project in the agreed time.