Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leaders K.T. Rama Rao and T. Harish Rao on Friday alleged that the Congress rule was centred around lands and that was the reason why the extent of lands in the prohibited list under Section 22A of the Registration Act had increased from 16 lakh acres during the previous government to 1.16 crore acres now.
A large number of 22A victims from areas in and around the city poured their woes following inclusion of their lands in the prohibited list.
During an interaction with the victims of 22A here, they said that, with a single stroke of pen, the Congress government had pushed the families having rights over their lands for generations into uncertainty.
Mr. Harish Rao alleged that the government had mortgaged 400 acres of University of Hyderabad land to the Bombay Stock Exchange, borrowed ₹10,000 crore at 9.5% interest rate, and had paid another ₹200 crore to the middlemen who arranged the mortgage. Similarly, another 8,000 acres in Medchal district were also mortgaged to the BSE to borrow another ₹10,000 crore. The government had also resumed 100 acres of Agriculture University land, and now it was eyeing the polytechnic colleges lands.
Further, he stated that 3,000 acres land trade was behind the Musi beautification project and the government had taken over Hyderabad Metro Rail with an eye on 280 acres of lands given to it. About 40,000 acres in Yadadri district was included in the prohibited list.
Mr. KT Rama Rao alleged that the Chief Minister had given away ₹200 crore worth land in Future City for just ₹7 crore to his sibling’s company. He explained that 800 acres of land in Lingapuram in Sircilla constituency and 100 acres in Kongara Kalan were included in the prohibited list, with a plan to sell them off to private parties at throw away prices’.
