Senior Congress leader Mohammed Ali Shabbir has criticised Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao for planning to acquire 11 acres of land of Osmania University for weaker sections housing project.
Addressing the media at Congress Legislature Party office here on Monday, the leader of the Opposition in the Council alleged that Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao appears to be suffering from ‘open land phobia’ and wherever he sees an open land, he comes out with some construction plans. “In the name of weaker section housing, KCR wants to handover the OU land to realtors for personal gains”.
Shabbir Ali said the Chief Minister should drop the plans to acquire 11 acres of land. “We will not allow the government to take even an inch of OU land. We will launch agitation if KCR does not mend his ways,” he warned.
Shabbir Ali alleged that KCR has been pursuing his “real estate ambitions” since he took over as Chief Minister. “He first eyed 627 acre prime land of Gurukul Trust. Later, he targeted 57 acres of Chest Hospital land at Erragadda. Recently he demanded 60 acres of military land in the name of building a new Secretariat”, he pointed out. The Chief Minister also proposed a new building at NTR Stadium and now he is eyeing the OU land. He is definitely suffering from ‘open land phobia’,” he added.
The Congress leader claimed that the previous Congress Government constructed 46 lakh houses for poor, which included 70,000 units in Greater Hyderabad limits during its 10-year regime without creating any hype. However, the TRS Government has delayed the completion of about 4-5 lakh houses by not releasing the funds. Further, KCR did not construct a single unit of 2BHK flats, as promised by him during elections.
Congress MLA A Sampath Kumar also spoke..(NSS)