CPI to launch state wide agitation along with other left parties against Andhra Pradesh government’s move to establish 10 lakh acres land bank to give to industrialists. CPI State secretary Ramakrishna demanded CM Naidu to put an end to his ‘Singapore Dreams’.
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh unit of Communist Part of India (CPI) has demanded Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naid to come out with the details of how the government has utilized funds given by the Centre for building the new state capital of the state.
Party’s State Unit secretary Ramakrishna alleged that the state government has so far not even submitted ‘Utilization Certificates’ for hundreds of crores of rupees, that it had got from the Center for the purpose of new state capital works.
Demanding the chief minister that it is high time that he better put an end to his ‘Singapore Dreams’, Ramakrishna alleged that the government is trying to hand over 4000 acres of prime land in the newly proposed state capital to the Singapore based companies under a power of attorney. Once this is done, even the government will have no say over lands in an area of 25 Kms radius, he said. He questioned the government whether it had pooled thousands of acres of lands in the Capital Region Development Region (CRDA) is meant to hand over them to the companies coming from abroad?
Further, he said that the Andhra Pradesh Re-organisation Bill has a provision clearly making the Centre responsible to everything needed for building a new capital city for the state. But, instead of taking help from the Centre, the state government has collected thousands of acres of lands from the people under its Land Pooling Scheme. In addition to all this, now the government wanted to hand over the collected lands to the companies flying down from Singapore, he criticized. The CPI leader said that the Left Party’s are organizing themselves to retaliate the government’s move to establish a 10 lakh acre land bank and to hand over the same to the industries. Soon a state wise agitation would be launched against the government’s bid to take away lands to establish the land bank, Ramakrishna added.
