BRS govt. fought Miyapur land case in SC, protected it: Harish Rao
Says Congress Govt. is planning to sell the land now and terms it a disgrace
T. Harish Rao, Deputy Floor Leader of the BRS Legislature Party and a former minister, has revealed that the prior BRS Government protected the 550 acres of government land in Miyapur, while the current Congress Government intends to monetize it. He affirmed that the BRS Government contested the land case in the Supreme Court to safeguard it.
However, Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy is set to sell the land now. Following the Supreme Court ruling on the Miyapur land, the Chief Minister addressed a press conference, contradicting the information provided in the Supreme Court's records. The Miyapur controversy reached the Supreme Court as a Special Leave Petition (SLP) in 2003 and was elevated to a Civil Appeal in 2013, during the Congress' rule, but the party remained inactive.
Upon Telangana's formation, then Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao ensured the land in the center of Hyderabad remained within government control. In 2015, he enlisted Senior Counsel C.S. Vaidyanathan to advocate the land's protection in favor of Telangana. Vaidyanathan represented Telangana from April 7, 2015, and argued the case until 2023, spanning nearly eight years.
Throughout this period, the BRS Government fought the case without interruption. Every petition, affidavit, and piece of evidence presented to the Supreme Court concerning the Miyapur land was submitted during the BRS tenure. The Supreme Court's judgment on the land concluded with the statement: "It is appropriate to examine the pertinent expressions and regulations under the A.P.
Abolition of Jagirs Regulations and the Atiyat Inquiries Act. Specific relevant terminologies are extracted from paragraph 93 of this Court's judgment in Trinity Infraventures Ltd. v. M.S. Murthy, 2023 SCC OnLine SC 738, for this purpose." Consequently, the foundation of the Miyapur land verdict was the Trinity Infraventures judgment.
The Government of Telangana triumphed in the case on June 15, 2023. Mr. Harish Rao stated that this victory and the legal foundations established in that judgment underpin the Miyapur land verdict. Nevertheless, the Chief Minister delivered a press conference, proclaiming it as his government's triumph and disseminating falsehoods.
The rationale behind the victory claims and the celebration was to sell the 550 acres land, estimated to have a market value of approximately ₹60,000 crore, at present.
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