HYDERABAD: Former Union Minister and BJP leader Ch. Vidyasagar Rao has said that the party will launch land struggles on its own by June-end.

Releasing a report, which the party obtained from the Special Chief Secretary to the Government, Department of Animal Husbandry, at a press conference here on Saturday, Mr. Rao said that the Government had allocated 4,000 acres of land to a sheep-breeding farm in Saroornagar and Maheswaram mandals in 1970.

Subsequently, different pieces of this land were given to different departments and 1,565.20 acres to the hardware park by the TDP Government.

Demanding restoration of the land to the sheep-breeding farm, he said the meat and wool of sheep had good export potential, particularly to the United States and Australia.

Stand clarified

Asked if the BJP was not against animal slaughter, as the party had agitated against a mechanised slaughterhouse, Mr. Rao said that the party was only against `cow slaughter', but did not propagate vegetarianism.

He described the resignation of seven Congress MLAs belonging to Andhra region from the House Committee on GO 610 as "utter disregard" for the Constitution and "another attempt to scuttle the implementation of the GO."

Later, Bharatiya Janata Minority Morcha national secretary Layaq Ali said that the Congress Government had been "hoodwinking" the Muslims.

The Congress Government did not constitute the Waqf Board even after three years of coming to power.

The commissions appointed to look into quota for Muslims was also an "eyewash," he observed.

Welcoming the increase in number of Assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies in the city and Ranga Reddy district, Baddam Bal Reddy, the party's district unit president, alleged that the Congress and the MIM had "connived" to carve out the constituencies to their advantage.

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