Visakhapatnam: The state president of BJP, Somu Veerraju, responding to the reports about YSRC leader V Vijaysai Reddy involving himself in land deals in Visakhapatnam, said on Monday that Reddy was doing “open trading of lands and not insider trading that he had alleged against TD leaders.”
Addressing a press conference in Visakhapatnam on Monday, Veerraju said the YSRC made it a one-point agenda to grab prime lands in Visakhapatnam in the name of decentralization and making Vizag the executive capital. “They are trading in lands, not ruling the state,’’ he said.
The BJP leader said he had written a letter to chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, urging him to appoint an independent committee of senior officials to probe the ongoing land controversy and file a fresh SLP in the Supreme Court with regard to the Dasapalla lands. A similar process was adopted by the TTD, by which it got back its lands, he said.
The BJP leader asked TD president Chandrababu Naidu and chief minister Jagan Mohan Reddy to release a white paper on what they did during their respective terms. “Promising to develop Amaravati, Chandrababu Naidu spent all his time in Hyderabad while Jagan said he would live in Amaravathi but create three capitals.”
Jagan should have gone to elections in 2019 by announcing his plan for the three capitals, in his manifesto, the BJP leader said.
Instead of playing a fresh drama in the name of resignations for decentralization, let Botsa Satyanarayana and Dharmana Prasada Rao get funds for completion of irrigation projects in Srikakulam and Vizianagaram, which are pending for decades, before talking about having the executive capital in Vizag, Veerraju said.
Senior leader and Rajya Sabha member GVL Narasimha Rao said the BJP is now the main opposition in AP, pulling up the government on all the major issues. It was the central government that took up development of the state since 2014, he claimed.
He said the central government sanctioned the Vizag-Chennai industrial corridor but both Chandrababu Naidu and Jagan Mohan Reddy could not complete the land acquisition process.
