VISAKHAPATNAM: The temperature in both the ruling TDP and lead Opposition YSR Congress quarters went up on the eve of the latter’s all-party Maha Dharna over the land grab allegations in Vizag on Wednesday, with YSRC MP V Vijaya Sai Reddy and Cabinet minister Ch Ayyanna Patrudu resorting to levelling allegations and counter-allegations. Vijaya Sai Reddy, during a media meet, blamed the land grab on Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, IT minister N Lokesh and other TDP leaders.
“The land mafia is operating with the blessings of the CM, his son and several TDP leaders and the official and law & order machinery is giving them the needed support to grab land belonging to government and people,” he said, adding that corrupt TDP leaders and officials have made the Steel City into a ‘stolen city’, he added.
The YSRC leaders alleged that HRD minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao, his son-in-law Prasanth, brother-in-law Parchuri Bhaskar Rao, MLAs Velagapudi Ramakrishna Babu and Bandaru Satyanarayana Murthy along with his son, Peela Govind, Panchakarla Ramesh Babu, Vangalapudi Anitha were linked to the land grabbers. Criticising government’s decision of an SIT probe into the alleged land scam instead of CBI inquiry, Reddy said if TDP spared the scamsters, YSRC would reopen files when voted to power.
Roads&Building minister Ayyanna said, “I was the first who went public over the land scam and land grabbing has been there since 2008 in and around Vizag, during Congress government and YS Rajasekhar Reddy’s tenure?”
SIT hearings soon
In the next few days, the SIT will organise hearings either at the collectorate or at the city police commissionarate and all the victims are requested to depose before the SIT with all related proofs, minister Ayyanna said.