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Dattatreya writes to YSR on land acquisition from ryots

Staff Reporter

`Hundreds of acres taken over, but pittance paid '

HYDERABAD: Bharatiya Janata Party National Secretary and former Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said that the State Government was doing great injustice to farmers through acquiring their lands forcefully and handing them over to MNCs.

In an open letter to Chief Minister Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy Mr.Dattatreya said that in the last two years, Government had taken over hundreds of acres of land that had been occupied by farmers for decades in Ranga Reddy district but was paying them pittance towards compensation. The Government on the other hand was earning crores per acre through auctions. It was not fair to claim 500 acres in Kokapet, 1,100 acres in Puppalguda, 119 acres in Nanakramguda, and lands in Manikonda, Khajaguda, Nallagandla and other villages allotted to various projects as Government lands, he said.

The Government was even helping private companies to acquire farmers' lands. Citing an instance he said, the Government issued GO 912 to help New Steel City Association acquire more land in Dulapally village in Qutbullapur from unwilling farmers. "When a delegation of BJP leaders represented the issue to you on behalf of the farmers on July 25, you gave an assurance to withdraw the GO. But no action has been taken so far though you describe your Government as pro-farmer," Mr.Dattatreya pointed out in his letter. The Congress leaders who opposed acquisition of farmers' lands during Chandrababu Naidu's regime had changed stance now, he said.

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