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Digvijay endorses Government stand on ORR

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New policy on decent compensation for land oustees on the anvil

HYDERABAD: AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh on Wednesday appreciated the Rajasekhara Reddy Government for "addressing all contentious issues" raised in the last few months, particularly land acquisition in Hyderabad over which the Opposition kicked up a row.

"The Government is concerned about the issues raised by farmers and others, whose lands are being acquired for major projects in and around the city," Mr. Singh said. In fact, the Government would soon come out with a policy that would help the land oustees to get a decent compensation. Mr. Singh made this statement after discussing with Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy and APCC president K. Keshava Rao the representation he received earlier from two city Congress MLAs Janardhan Reddy and M. Sashidhar Reddy. These MLAs drew his attention to the recent auction of Government lands at Kokapet and land acquisition for the Outer Ring Road and other mega projects by displacing the poor. They also complained about diversion of Krishna water to Rayalaseema from the Pothireddypadu head regulator.

On right track

Mr. Singh, who chaired the three-hour-long Manifesto Implementation and Coordination Committee meeting at Gandhi Bhavan, told reporters later that the Government was on the right track in executing major irrigation projects and launching the Indiramma programme. Without naming the two Congress MLAs, he pointed out that a land acquisition policy was on the cards to benefit the oustees. On Pothireddypadu, he said Dr. Reddy had categorically stated that the interests of Telangana and Krishna delta would not be affected. The regulator was meant only to divert surplus floodwater to Rayalaseema.

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