Telangana BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar today wrote an open letter to Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao and demanded that the CM solve the podu land problems of tribal farmers during the upcoming revenue conferences.
He also demanded that the Chief Minister hand over the title deeds of the podu lands to their occupiers during the conferences.
In his letter, Bandi said that the podu land problem was not confined to only the police department but also related to the forest department, and urged the CM to make the forest department a part of the revenue conferences.
He told KCR that BJP MP and tribal leader Soyam Babu Rao had submitted several representations to the district Collectors urging them to solve the podu lands problem in the State. Bandi claimed that the State government had climbed down due to the BJP's protests and decided to launch a drive to receive applications from the podu land occupiers to issue the land pattas to them in November 2021.
He however told the Chief Minister that the problem did not get a permanent solution. He reminded KCR of his "promises" made on the issue of the podu lands a couple of times in the past, including in July 2019 that he (KCR) would take the entire revenue department to the doorsteps of the tribals and issue land pattas to them, and said that he was ready to send media reports about the promises made by the CM to remind the latter of his promises.
He said that the State unit of the BJP was ready to arrange chairs for the CM to sit and supervise the process of distribution of the podu land pattas.
Bandi also said the committee of ministers headed by State Tribal Welfare Minister Satyavati Rathod had turned out to be an utsava vigraham.