No One Involved In Land Encroachment To Be Spared: Revanth Reddy

Chief Minister Revanth Reddy today reiterated that the Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRA) would do its job impartially and that no one involved in the encroachment of lands in buffer zones and Full Tank Level (FTL) areas of water bodies would be spared.

In a chit chat with media persons at the Secretariat, the CM defended the ongoing demolition drive undertaken by the HYDRA.

Claiming that many celebrities and politicians who had built farmhouses were releasing drainage water into the Osman Sagar and Himayat Sagar lakes, he asked, "Should the people of Hyderabad drink that drainage water? That's why we have taken up the demolition drive."

Talking about BRS working president K T Rama Rao's farmhouse at Janwada village in Rangareddy district, the Chief Minister asked why that lease was not mentioned in his election affidavit, and demanded that KTR be disqualified as MLA.

Reddy also said that the State government was not showing any biases for the ruling party leader or against the opposition leaders during the demolition drive, and pointed out that the first house that was demolished by HYDRA belonged to a Congress leader, Pallam Raju.

Speaking about the grant of bail to BRS MLC Kavitha by the Supreme Court, the Chief Minister said that it was fact that the BRS had sacrificed MP seats for Kavitha's bail during the recently held Lok Sabha elections, and that Kavitha's bail was part of a BRS-BJP agreement.

"Kavitha secured bail in five months when Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia was in jail for 17 months in the same case. And Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is still in jail in the same case," Reddy pointed out.

Speaking of the crop loan waivers, the CM said that grievance cells had been set up at all the district Collectorate offices, and suggested to BRS leaders Harish Rao and K T Rama Rao that they submit the list of farmers who did not get the loan waivers instead of criticising the Congress government.