Y S Sharmila Vows To Give Pattas For 13 lakh Acres Of Podu Lands

YSR Telangana Party founder-president Y S Sharmila today promised to distribute pattas for 13 lakh acres of podu lands within four months of wresting power in the State.

Addressing a gathering after paying tributes to the martyrs of Indravelli, she said that she was bowing her head before the martyrs for sacrificing their lives for a cause.

She recalled that her father had seen the problems of the podu lands during his historic padayatra in undivided Andhra Pradesh, and had constituted the Koneru Ranga Rao Committee soon after he became Chief Minister. He had then distributed podu land pattas for over 3.3 lakh acres of land, and would have given pattas for the remaining land too if he were alive, she claimed, and alleged that the BRS and the Congress had not given pattas for even one acre of podu lands after his demise.

She further said that CM K Chandrashekar Rao had promised to distribute pattas within six months of becoming Chief Minister, and asked him what happened to his promise. She alleged that KCR had not given pattas for even one acre of podu lands in his last nine years' rule, and had in fact sent all those who demanded distribution of the lands to jails and had thousands of criminal cases filed against them. She termed the Indravelli incident as a replica of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

She also asked KCR what happened to his promise of 10% reservations for tribals, and promised the tribal people that she would solve all their problems after coming into power.