Somireddy flays proposal to allot Amaravati land as house sites

Amaravati: TDP politburo member and former Minister Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy questioned how the State government could allot house sites on the lands taken from the farmers for the construction of the State capital.

After visiting the protesting farmers at the villages in the Amaravati capital region on Wednesday, he asked Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy how he could allot the lands to the poor at the place which was earlier termed as the graveyard by the YSRCP leaders and Ministers.

Reacting on the meagre allocation of the lands to the poor, he said that the decision of registering just 1 cent land to each household will not serve any purpose in constructing the independent house. He said that the proposed 1 cent of land to the poor was equal to the washroom of Botcha Satyanarayana, Minister for Urban Development.

Somireddy said the Chief Minister cannot shift the capital from Amaravati as the State government gave a commitment under an agreement to the farmers while taking their agriculture lands under the Land Pooling Scheme.

According to the agreement, the State government has to construct the capital city Amaravati. Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself came and laid foundation stone for construction of Amaravati as a world-class capital city and the Central government also released funds for that.

Reacting on the comments of BJP MP GVL Narasimha Rao on the three capitals, Chandramohan Reddy suggested him to shift the capital of Uttar Pradesh if he had guts.