HYDERABAD: PCC president A. Revanth Reddy branded the BRS government run by father-son duo of K. Chandrashekar Rao and K.T. Rama Rao with seven top officials as “D-9 company”, alleging that hundreds of applications for land development remained pending with various departments for several years.
Speaking to media persons in Gandhi Bhavan, Revanth Reddy remarked how, following “due settlement, high-rises near KBR Park were granted clearance, violating all norms,” including the airport runway's 'Funnel Zone’, and damaging the ecosystem there.
The TPCC president alleged that hundreds of applications linked to land development were pending with various departments, some of which for the past nine years because the “palms were not greased”. “D-9 like the Dawood gang is ruining the state," he claimed.
Revanth Reddy claimed that a multi-storey building with 21 floors, including three underground floors for parking was cleared on Road No. 14 opposite KBR Park, adjacent to TS Study Circle, after the land owner gave up ownership of nearly half the property. Further, the TPCC president claimed that after almost three years of negotiations, the chairman and MD of a vernacular newspaper “a benami of KCR, received nearly half of the 5,800 square yards of land that KS & CS Developers had requested permission to develop”.
"The 2,704 square-yard parcel of land was purchased in 2019 for a throwaway price of Rs 17 crore. However, the developers received clearance that extends up to five lakh sq yards while the regulations permit 6,500 sq feet of built-up area on the remaining 3,000 sq yards. Only three levels are allowed for residential buildings and five floors for commercial buildings in places like Banjara Hills. This skyscraper has 21 levels total, including three floors in the basement. There are 160 vehicles and hundreds of two-wheelers allowed there. It has permission for 160 cars and hundreds of two-wheelers.
The nearby Basavatarakam cancer hospital has only three storeys in a land spanning seven acres. Think about the environmental impact the air conditioning system will have on the KBR park. Each apartment is sold for Rs 10 to 12 crore," he explained.
Daring Rama Rao to prove him wrong, Revanth Reddy asked the minister to undertake demolition of structures that violate rules. "They cannot demolish the land because a deal was struck and the landowner was asked to expand his project vertically rather than horizontally by giving away his land for a pittance of Rs 17 crore. If it was not a compromise by developers, will the same land be sold for me for Rs 40 crore,” he asked.
