hyderabad: The Congress authorities in Telangana has authorised the allocation of presidency land for constructing social gathering workplaces in districts the place the social gathering at the moment lacks presence.
Officers stated the choice was taken by the Telangana cupboard after consulting all of the ministers in a gathering held on the state secretariat on Monday.
The approval is prone to increase eyebrows because it modifies a politically delicate precedent set by the earlier Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) authorities and attracts comparisons with a parallel controversy in Congress-ruled Karnataka.
Chaired by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, the Telangana Cupboard mentioned a number of necessary points, together with handing over metro operations from Larsen & Toubro and provision of accident insurance coverage to all authorities workers and pensioners in Telangana.
A memo issued by the federal government relating to the choice, accessed by ThePrint, stated the transfer to allocate land to the Congress was taken in view of the insurance policies and tips laid down by the earlier authorities for constructing political social gathering workplaces in constituencies.
Chatting with ThePrint, MLC and Congress spokesperson Dr Venkat Balmoor defended the transfer.
“Development of workplaces is a standard determination taken by all political events in energy. Not like the BRS, we have now not acquired prime land in each district headquarters. We’ll construct workplaces solely in districts the place we wouldn’t have an workplace. Additionally, the land will likely be allotted to the Gandhi Belief, which can oversee all social gathering actions. Subsequently, there will likely be full transparency within the allocation,” he stated.
Considerably, the principle opposition social gathering, BRS, has not reacted to the Telangana authorities’s determination and has chosen to stay silent in view of the allotment of land for social gathering workplaces in 2018.
When ThePrint contacted the social gathering for remark, considered one of its key spokespersons declined, saying he was away from Hyderabad.
The Bharatiya Janata Celebration condemned the cupboard determination. Nirmal MLA Areti Maheshwar Reddy, chief of the Congress, instructed ThePrint, “As soon as the Congress is convened, we are going to search related quota from social gathering workplaces.”
“The situations relevant to them must also apply to us with out prejudice. Nevertheless, as soon as the income division broadcasts the allotment of land, we are going to talk about this matter internally.”
Whereas the extent of land to be allotted for meeting workplaces is but to be determined by the Telangana Income Division, the choice comes barely per week after allegations surfaced that the Karnataka Meeting was being allotted for workplaces of native our bodies and native our bodies within the state.
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, together with Chief of Opposition within the Karnataka Legislative Council Chalavadi Narayanaswamy, additionally introduced the intention to construct 100 meeting bhawans within the state and accused the Congress of “illegally” buying 31 websites for brand new social gathering workplaces.
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2018 BRS Coverage
In 2018, the then BRS authorities headed by Ok. Chandrashekhar Rao as CM had authorised a coverage to allot as much as one acre of land in every district headquarters to political social gathering workplaces at a nominal price of Rs 100 per sq. yard. It was additionally determined to allocate land to BRS for social gathering workplaces in all districts. The cupboard determination additionally included exemption from property taxes for these social gathering workplaces.
At present, the BRS headquarters Telangana Bhawan in Hyderabad is situated within the upscale Banjara Hills space, and the social gathering owns about 11 acres of prime land within the metropolis’s Kokapet.
A number of petitions had been filed within the Telangana Excessive Court docket searching for grant of presidency land for social gathering workplaces. In 2024, the HC had ordered a case in opposition to the BRS workplace in Nalgonda, saying it was constructed illegally with out prior permission from the municipality. A wonderful of Rs 100,000 was additionally imposed.
(Edited by Nida Fatima Siddiqui)
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