BRS accuses CM, family members of focusing on land sale, realty businesses

BRS leader T. Harish Rao at Truck Park in Moosapet on Friday.

Senior BRS leader T. Harish Rao has alleged that Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and his family members are revolving around lands and real estate business as the earth revolves around the sun.

Speaking at a protest, organised jointly by BRS, CPI and CPM, at Truck Park in Moosapet on Friday, he stated that the HMDA has notified the auction of land in survey numbers 121/P to 141, 146, 147, 155, 156 and 157 in Moosapet on November 27.

MLAs Madhavaram Krishna Rao and K.P. Vivekanand, MLCs Shambipur Raju and Naveen Kumar, and other party leaders, participated in the dharna.

Mr. Harish Rao stated that the lands on the block of sale include the MLA’s camp office, Truck Park, HMDA nursery, RTO office and the land given to the traffic police station. “Mr. Revanth Reddy does not intend to leave anything behind,” he said.

He mentioned that the land was taken from poor SC and ST farmers in 1982 at Rs. one lakh an acre, on a written condition that no houses and no business would come up on it. The same department filed affidavits in the High Court and the Supreme Court saying it would be kept for truck parking and public use.

The BRS leaders spoke to local residents, truck drivers and workers, who expressed deep anguish over the land being put up for sale as it was meant for public use. Mr. Harish Rao assured them that BRS would oppose and block the auction and stand with them.

Mr. Harish Rao recollected that in 2013, when the Congress Government in combined Andhra Pradesh had put up the same land for sale, Mr. Krishna Rao, an MLA then too, K. Narayana of CPI, B.V. Raghavulu of CPM, then TRS MP B. Vinod Kumar and he along with Telangana protagonists went there and opposed the auction and the government had to back off, ultimately.

Later, when BRS was at the helm, the government did not sell even one square yard of the land and some small extents was given for HMDA nursery, traffic police office, RTO office and the MLA’s camp office, alongside keeping the truck park running. Now, just 3 years into office, the Congress Government had put up the whole land for sale. The government had already sold and planning to sell even small parcels of land at Kapra, Ameenpur and Kaithalapur.

He warned those who were planning to buy the land that BRS would resume the land after coming back to power in the next elections.