Accusing the previous governments of looting government lands and destroyed resources, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao today urged the House to constitute a House Committee on alleged irregularities on Jubilee Hills Cooperative House Building Society lands and Wakf lands.
Reading his statement on the issue in the House, KCR lambasted the previous governments for indulging in looting the land and caused heavy loss to the exchequer. He said his government was ready to initiate action followed by Speaker’s order for separate House Committees as it was sought by members of TRS, MIM, BJP and Congress on alleged irregularities and encroachment of assigned lands. The CM said the Government was ready to take up a time-bound inquiry through separate House committees. He read out that the Jubilee Hills House Building Society was allotted 1,398 acres of government land comprising 1195 acres at Shaikpet and 203 acres at Hakimpet and land to other societies. However, inquires revealed that they involved in irregularities, he said and asked the Speaker S Madhusudanachary to direct the government to take action through a House committee.
Accordingly, the Speaker announced that a House committee will be formed to look into the irregularities of all cooperative societies. Members of various parties, including Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, G Balaraju, Sanjiv Rao extended support to the Chief Minister to constitute a House committee to inquire into the alleged land irregularities and action to punish the guilty. It may be mentioned here that the government on Wednesday had agreed to constitute a House Committee to probe into various land issues, including those belonging to Wakf, endowments and churches.
When MIM floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi raised the issue of encroachment of Wakf lands in the Assembly on Thursday, the Chief Minister announced that a separate House Committee would be constituted to look into Wakf land.
The issue came up for discussion in the Assembly through a Call Attention Motion moved by Akbaruddin and four other MLAs into the irregularities in the Jubilee Hills and Film Nagar Housing Societies and the Wakf lands involved. Akbaruddin said various inquiries conducted by government agencies clearly established that large-scale irregularities were committed by the societies over the last many years. He demanded that the present government order a judicial probe into the societies’ affairs.
Congress leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka wanted a House Committee to probe the irregularities in the Telangana Non-Gazetted Officers’ Housing Society. The Chief Minister said the government would soon appoint a judge for the Wakf Tribunal to dispose of cases related to Wakf lands. (NSS)
