Hyderabad: The Congress authorities in Telangana has accredited the allotment of presidency land for building of occasion workplaces in districts the place it presently lacks a presence.

The choice was taken by the Telangana cupboard after session with all ministers at a gathering Monday on the state secretariat, sources within the authorities stated.

Chaired by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, the Telangana Cupboard mentioned a number of necessary points, together with taking on of metro rail operations from Larsen & Toubro, and offering accident insurance coverage to all authorities workers and pensioners in Telangana.

A observe issued by the federal government on the choices taken, seen by ThePrint, stated the transfer to allocate land to the Congress was taken contemplating the insurance policies and tips formulated by earlier governments for constructing workplaces for political events in districts.

Talking to ThePrint, Dr Venkat Balmoor, MLC and Congress spokesperson, defended the transfer.

“Constructing its workplaces is a standard choice taken by each occasion that’s in energy. In contrast to the BRS, we’re not buying prime land in all district headquarters. We are going to construct our workplaces solely in districts the place we do not need it. Additionally, the land might be allotted to our Gandhi Belief, which seems to be into all occasion actions. So, there might be full transparency in allocation,” he stated.

Considerably, the principal opposition occasion, BRS, has not reacted to the Telangana authorities’s choice and has chosen to remain mum given its earlier earmarking of land for occasion workplaces in 2018.

When ThePrint reached out to the occasion for a remark, one in all its key spokespersons declined, stating that he was out of Hyderabad.

The BJP has slammed the cupboard choice. Its ground chief within the meeting, Nirmal MLA Alleti Maheshwar Reddy, informed ThePrint that “we’ll ask for the same allocation for our occasion workplaces when the meeting session convenes”.

“The situations that apply to them ought to apply to us as effectively with none prejudice. Nonetheless, we’ll focus on this matter internally as soon as the income division pronounces the land allocation.”

Whereas the extent of land to be allotted for the Congress workplaces is but to be determined by the Telangana income division, the choice comes only a week after allegations surfaced concerning the Karnataka Congress being allotted workplaces of municipal and native our bodies within the state.

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.Okay. Shivakumar has additionally declared his intention to assemble 100 Congress Bhavans throughout the state, with Chalavadi Narayanaswamy, Chief of the Opposition within the Karnataka Legislative Council, accusing the Congress of “illegally” acquiring 31 websites for building of recent occasion workplaces.

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2018 BRS coverage

In 2018, the then BRS authorities, led by Okay. Chandrashekar Rao as CM, had accredited a coverage to allot as much as one acre of land in every district headquarters for political occasion workplaces at a nominal price of Rs 100 per sq. yard. A call was additionally taken to allot land to the BRS for occasion workplaces in all districts.  The cupboard choice additional included an exemption from property tax for these occasion workplaces.

Presently, BRS headquarters Telangana Bhavan in Hyderabad is located within the upmarket Banjara Hills space and the occasion owns about 11 acres of prime land within the metropolis’s Kokapet.

A number of petitions have been filed within the Telangana Excessive Courtroom difficult the grant of presidency land for occasion workplaces. In 2024, the HC ordered motion in opposition to the BRS workplace in Nalgonda, saying it was constructed illegally with out prior permission from the municipality. A nice of Rs 1 lakh was additionally levied.

(Edited by Nida Fatima Siddiqui)

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