VIJAYAWADA: Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu has warned that anyone resorting to any kind of land-related irregularities including illegal occupation of land will be sent to jail.
The chief minister was speaking in the state assembly on Thursday on the AP Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act 2024. “Efforts would be made to ensure penalties within six months,” he said.
"Development of any country or state is possible only if there is peace as also effective law and order and. There will be no development if people live in fear. If industries are set up, employment can be generated. For industries to be established, investments are a must,” he said.
Naidu announced that the police setup will be strengthened and the 6,100 vacant police posts will be filled soon.
The chief minister regretted that YSR Congress chief, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, “is defending all those who are posting objectionable comments against his own sister and mother.”
“I really felt distressed on seeing the obscene comments posted against the family members of deputy chief minister, Pawan Kalyan. These elements resorted to character assassination of Dalit woman and home minister, Vangalapudi Anitha,” he said.
Naidu also alleged that the leaders of the previous dispensation resorted to organised crime on social media with a Paytm batch. “To check such trends, a national forensic science campus will be established in the state,” he said.
He said the previous government brought in the Land Titling Act to encourage the land mafia. “Taking advantage of this law, the YSRC government raised curtains for cheating and even nullified the powers of judicial officers. Hence, I revoked the law immediately after assuming power.”
Informing the assembly that a public prosecutor too is being appointed, the CM said the Preventive Detention (PD) Act will be further strengthened. “If anyone indulges in selling spurious seeds, if there are irregularities in sand mining, or if the rice mafia is at work, such persons will attract the provision of the PD Act,” he said.
Naidu felt that if AP should be the lead address for the knowledge economy, maintenance of law and order is a first priority. “For realising Swarnadhara Pradesh too, law and order is equally important.”
