Union Minister for Tourism, Culture and Development of Northeast and Telangana BJP President G. Kishan Reddy, on August 14, has expressed strong opposition to the ongoing auction of government and assigned lands for mobilising revenues stating that it is highly “irresponsible” ,”misuse of official machinery” and an “anti-people” act.
“The indiscriminate sale of lands is only to mobilise funds for the forthcoming elections. Instead of ensuring wealth is created, it is being frittered away. Even the assigned lands allocated for the poor and weaker sections are being snatched away for real estate deals by the BRS Government. It had secured ₹7,000 crore already and has plans to sell hundreds of acres which does not auger well for future of TS,” he charged at a press conference at the party office.
The Minister said the auction of lands and taking loans for works only exposed the “political bankruptcy” of the Government and questioned why a “rich” and “surplus budget” Telangana had come to such a sorry state of affairs under the stewardship of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao.
