HYDERABAD: A round table of the representatives of major political parties has demanded that the State Government order an inquiry by a sitting High Court judge to bring out the facts pertaining to the alleged irregularities in land acquisition for the proposed Outer Ring Road project.

Organised by the state council of CPI on Tuesday, leaders of the Telugu Desam, CPI(M) and CPI (ML-New Democracy) attended it. TRS representatives could not make it as they were participating in a rasta roko.

The participants had resolved to jointly demand that the Government compensate the affected people on a land-to-land basis and also take into consideration the plight of the owners of individual plots who would be hit by the project. They had also decided to represent their demands to the Cabinet sub-committee constituted to go into the alleged irregularities that would be followed by a meeting with Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy. Initiating the discussion, CPI State secretary K. Narayana alleged that the Government had spared the lands of the "politically influential" people and senior IAS officials while forcing the poor to part with their lands.

CPI(M) state secretariat member Y. Venkateswara Rao demanded that the Government scrap all the transactions including registrations that had been made after the notification for land acquisition was issued. TDP representative E. Peddi Reddy wanted all the political parties opposed to the irregularities to fight for the cause of the land oustees from a single platform.

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