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The Hindu
The Hindu
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Involve forest dept in revenue meetings on podu lands: BJP

Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party president and MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar has demanded Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao issue land rights for the farmers involved in the podu cultivation in the proposed revenue meetings to be held across the state soon on Friday.

In yet another open letter to KCR, the party chief said the forest department should also be involved in the revenue meetings to solve the long-pending tussle, raids against the tribals should be halted and false cases filed again st them should be withdrawn unconditionally.

He claimed that the prolonged agitation by his party Adilabad MP Soyam Babu Rao and others had forced the Government to accept applications for regularisation of such lands in Nov-Dec .2021, yet the final solution has been eluding.

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