Strongly condemning the Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao for dubbing the Land Acquisition Act, 2013, "useless", Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee Vice-President Mallu Ravi alleged that the State government brought the new Land Acquisition Act only to grab lands forcibly from the farmers.
Speaking to the media at Gandhi Bhavan on Thursday, Ravi said that it was not proper for KCR who was a member of the then Lok Sabha in 2013, to ridicule the Act. As per sections 107 and 108 of the Land Acquisition Act, 2013, State governments had the right to prepare a new Acquisition Act provided the Acts were better than the 2013 Act, he said.
He alleged that the State government wasn't in the right place to make amends to the 2013 Act. The new Act would abolish the rights of the people on their own lands, he claimed and added that the government was preparing the Acts without any research.
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