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Congress seeks all-party meet on survey
Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir on Monday said the land survey proposed by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government was unconstitutional and undemocratic and emerged as a ruling party’s affair due to involvement of TRS MLAs and party workers at every stage of land survey process, thereby exposing the designs of the KCR regime ahead of the 2019 electio
Hyderabad: Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir on Monday said the land survey proposed by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government was unconstitutional and undemocratic and emerged as a ruling party’s affair due to involvement of TRS MLAs and party workers at every stage of land survey process, thereby exposing the designs of the KCR regime ahead of the 2019 elections.
Speaking at the Assembly Media Point on Monday along with MLC Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy, Shabbir Ali demanded that the government immediately call for an all-party meeting and a special session of the Telangana Assembly to formulate the modalities and procedures of the land survey. The copies of the Integrated Family Survey (Samagrah Kutumba Survey) should be made public and circulated among the Opposition MLAs, MLCs and MPs. He wanted the government to involve all party leaders, including Opposition MLAs even though the committees are chaired by the TRS Ministers.
“Why only the TRS legislators and MPs are involved and not the Opposition leaders. Is the survey conducted by the Telangana government or the TRS party?” he asked and said during 1993-94, the then Chief Minister K Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy had also conducted a comprehensive land survey in the entire AP and a record 4.5 lakh acres of land belonging to the poor were regularised and patta pass books were granted. “How it is possible to make survey within 10 days of 1.20 crore farmers lands?” he asked.
Responding to a question on Chandrashekar Rao’s prediction of winning 100 MLA seats in 2019 polls, the LOP said it was nothing but the Goebbels campaign. “Chandrashekar Rao is well aware of the fact that 90 per cent of his MLAs including those who defected from the Congress and other parties are unhappy and disgruntled over family rule in the party and the government and they may not get tickets in 2019,” he said.
“Chandrashekar Rao has sensed the political polarisation and also the heartburn among seniors and defectors, and that is why he has launched a publicity drive that the party would bear the election expenses of all and would win the 2019 polls hands down in over 100 seats,” he said.
“I am sure people and the politicians (seniors and defectors in the TRS) are intelligent enough to see through the mind game of Chandrashekar Rao and save themselves from humiliation and political endgame. Over 90 percent of sitting MLAs and MP will not get the ticket to contest,” he cautioned.
Speaking on the occasion, Sudhakar Reddy charged the TRS government of neglecting tribal welfare. “It is a mind game played by Chandrashekar Rao to ensure that all people are kept busy with the land survey alone by diluting other welfare schemes,” he alleged.
