Harish Rao said the government had admitted at an all-party meeting that crops had failed on 25 lakh acres across Telangana but it had not announced relief measures. MEDAK: BRS legislature party’s deputy floor leader and former minister T. Harish Rao on Friday accused the Congress government of causing a “man-made drought” by failing to utilise available irrigation water, alleging that thousands of acres of crops had withered despite substantial inflows into.