TRS govt’s prime Banjrara Hills gift to TRS party, Oppn flays ‘loot’

The land is estimated to be price at the least Rs 100 crore, mentioned the All India Congress Committee (AICC)’s spokesperson Dasoju Sravan.

Expressing outrage over the Ok Chandrashekar Rao-headed authorities’s transfer, the Opposition events have identified that the TRS already has a sprawling celebration headquarters, referred to as Telangana Bhavan, in Banjara Hills, which was unveiled in 2006. Chief Minister and TRS supremo KCR had additionally laid the muse stone for a TRS workplace constructing at Delhi’s Vasant Vihar final yr.

“This is TRS bosses’ robbery of valuable public land in broad daylight with the support of official machinery,” alleged Sravan, questioning the recent allotment of land to the TRS for its district workplace when the ruling celebration already has its state workplace constructed over an acre in the identical locality. Asking the KCR authorities to right away cancel the May 11 GO order, he warned that in any other case the Congress will launch a mass agitation to be able to “check the looting of valuable public land by KCR and his family in the name of party offices”.

The Congress chief charged, “Already TRS state office is spread over an acre at Banjara Hills Road No. 12 and now the TRS government has once again allotted more than an acre for another party office in the same locality. Never in the history have we seen such a shameless loot of public property by people in power. In the past 8 years the TRS has amassed assets worth over Rs 1000 crore. From where did these assets come? Who is donating to TRS? And now by abusing power KCR is trying to grab another prime land. It is unfortunate that the government which has to protect public land is itself usurping it.”

The BJP additionally mounted an assault on the KCR authorities over the row, with celebration MLA T Raja Singh accusing it of “robbing valuable public land” and saying that the saffron celebration may even launch protests and “do everything to stop this land allotment to TRS”.

Threatening an agitation towards the federal government, state BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar requested “why does the TRS need such a vast piece of land when they already have Telangana Bhavan in the same area”. He mentioned, “We demand they cancel this allotment and that this land should be used to construct 2-bedroom houses for the poor.”

Other Opposition events additionally demanded that the TRS authorities instantly scrap the land allotment resolution. The state Bahujan Samaj Party’s chief coordinator and ex-IPS workplace R S Praveen Kumar, requested, “What are these extraordinary circumstances which led to concern of this GO? This is the end result of the TRS’s abuse of energy. TRS which has Rs 1,000 crore assents can’t purchase an acre of land by itself? What is the rationale to offer TRS the land totally free?’’

Keeping his weapons skilled on the TRS dispensation, Sravan accused the ruling celebration of “encroaching all prime lands in Hyderabad”. He alleged, “Government is not constructing double bedroom houses on the outskirts of the city, citing non-availability of land. But when it comes to allocating land for TRS office, it finds land in the city. This shows government has no intention to provide houses to the poor and is more focused on usurping public lands.” He mentioned the Congress’s headquarters in Telangana, Gandhi Bhavan, has at all times been on lease.

In 2018, the KCR authorities had introduced that it’ll allot land as much as one acre at Rs 100 per yard to political events to assemble their workplaces within the state, including that they’d even be exempted from paying any property tax on this regard.

When requested for the TRS’s response over the row, celebration spokesperson T Bhanu Prasad Rao, a Member of Legislative Council (MLC), mentioned, “No comment.”