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Assigned lands' move opposed

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ANIMATED DISCUSSION: BJP leader K. Laxman speaking at the all-party meeting convened to discuss the Outer Ring Road issue in Hyderabad on Thursday. — Photo: Mohd.Yousuf

HYDERABAD: Major political parties, barring the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, have asked the Government to drop its moves to make amendments to the Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977, as it is against the interests of tribals and weaker sections.

Representatives of the Telugu Desam, the BJP, the CPI(M), the CPI and the CPI (ML) New Democracy announced after an all-party meeting here on Wednesday that they would shortly meet Governor Rameshwar Thakur requesting him not to give his assent to the proposed ordinance. The haste with which the Government was trying to bring the ordinance clearly showed that it wanted to regularise the allotment of assigned lands made on the basis of auctions.

TDP spokesman K. Vijayarama Rao, CPI(M) State Secretariat member Y. Venkateswara Rao, BJP State general secretary K. Lakshman and others said the proposed amendments were not necessary if the Government was committed to distribute assignment lands that were auctioned earlier to the poor.

ORR irregularities

The meeting also discussed about the allegations of irregularities in the Outer Ring Road project and demanded that the Government order separate inquiries to go through the land allocations made to IMG Bharata, Raheja Group and other companies.

The Government had been asked to cancel all the registrations made after the notifications were issued besides stopping the ongoing work on the ORR project, pending the completion of the probe. Expressing solidarity with the ORR oustees who had decided to block the four major entry points in the State capital on October 12, they said the parties would meet again if the Government failed to respond to their demands and chalk out future course of action.

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