Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL), a 140-year-old Telangana State PSU, is at the center of a heated controversy over alleged tender irregularities. The Opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) accuses the ruling Congress party of framing tender norms that favour Congress leaders and their relatives. They claim this caused losses to SCCL. The key issue is the introduction of a 'site visit certification' condition in tenders, allegedly pushed by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy to benefit his brother-in-law S. Srujan Reddy’s firms. Senior BRS leader T. Harish Rao first raised these allegations on January 19. The Congress Deputy Chief Minister M. Bhatti Vikramarka defended the norms, saying the site visit condition existed since 2018 under BRS rule and is common in other PSUs. Harish Rao countered that the condition was only for coal handling plants before, not for overburden removal contracts. According to BRS, contracts issued before May 2025 followed old procedures and saved money for SCCL. Contracts after May 2025 included the site visit rule and had inflated bid rates favoring Congress kin. BRS demands a CBI or central agency probe, arguing state investigations would be biased. The controversy has intensified as BRS leaders received SIT notices linked to separate phone-tapping cases, which they call political harassment. The issue is politically charged with local elections coming up and both parties battling hard. It remains to be seen if the state government orders an independent probe to clarify the allegations or shifts focus to exposing BRS faults.