Suryapet Collectorate Delayed As 1 Cr Rent Being Paid To MLA: Congress

Nalgonda MP & former TPCC President N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Friday alleged that the construction of a new building for the Surpayet district Collectorate was being delayed as the State government has been paying a rent of Rs. 1 crore every year to Huzurnagar MLA Saidireddy, of the TRS.

Speaking to media persons after visiting the Collectorate, Uttam Kumar Reddy alleged that Saidireddy and some ministers were not allowing the construction of a new building for the Suryapet Collectorate because Saidireddy did not want to lose the huge money being paid to him as rent by the government.

He said that the present Collectorate was located in the Kamakshi Engineering College, a sick college, near Durajpally village of Chivvemla mandal. This building was far away from the town, and thus it was inconvenient to the general public to have to travel all the way there - for years together, the locals had been complaining about the unsuitability of the building and its location. However, MLA Saidireddy and some ministers were delaying the construction of a new Collectorate to continue to get the Rs. 1 crore annual rent from that building of a sick college.

"The TRS government is heading for a huge defeat in the next elections. Having sensed that, the TRS leaders have intensified their loot in all possible forms," Uttam Kumar Reddy alleged.

Uttam Kumar Reddy claimed that Saidireddy was into land, sand, mine, wine and other kinds of the mafia.

"And the situation is no different in other parts of Telangana. The wholesale liquor business is controlled by the Kalvakuntla family while the retail business is being controlled by ministers and MLAs. The Kalvakuntla family is earning hundreds of crores a month by deciding what brands the Telangana Beverages Corporation should buy, at what price, and in what quantity. Similarly, the local TRS MLAs are earning tens of crores a month by having control over all the liquor shops in their constituencies," he alleged.

"In my five terms as an MLA and as an MP now, I have not seen more brazen and shameless corruption than now by the TRS. The corruption starts from the CM and MLAs themselves," Uttam Kumar Reddy said.

He said that all the "illegal" activities of the TRS MLAs enjoyed direct protection from the Collectors and SPs. They were all also harassing innocent people and common citizens through their organised mafias, and indulged in illegal encroachments in their constituencies in connivance with the local district authorities, Reddy claimed. Citing an instance, he said that Saidireddy illegally grabbed 300 acres of tribal land in Mattampally mandal.

"Right from the level of Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao's nephew & MP Santosh Kumar to lower level MLAs, the TRS leaders are into illegal sand mining, land grabbing, liquor mafia and other unlawful activities with no fear of being caught. The scale of the loot and dacoity of public and private properties by the TRS leaders was never seen in combined Andhra Pradesh. The common people are feeling the pressure of corruption from the Tehsildar's to the district Collector's and even the Chief Secretary's office," he said. He added that corruption had become rampant in the police department too, starting right from the SI and CI levels.

Uttam Kumar Reddy claimed that the people were fed up of the "mafia" activities of the TRS leaders, and would soon bring the Congress to power to end the corrupt KCR regime.