BRS Corporators’ ruckus shakes GHMC meeting over industrial policy

RS corporators and MLAs protested at the Hyderabad GHMC meeting against the Congress government's Industrial Transformation Policy, alleging misappropriation of industrial lands. Mayor G. Vijayalakshmi deferred the discussion, as it was not part of the agenda

Hyderabad: The GHMC general body meeting on Tuesday remained chaotic, with several ruckus moments, as BRS party corporators raised slogans and protested against the State government’s proposed industrial transformation policy.

The GHMC meeting hall reverberated with the slogans of ‘CM down, CM down’ raised by the BRS Corporators. Soon after the meeting resumed, Sanath Nagar BRS MLA, Talasani Srinivas Yadav, took the floor and alleged that the new Industrial Transformation Policy initiated by the Congress government handed over crores worth of industrial lands for other purposes.

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Meanwhile, Congress corporators objected to Talasani’s remarks on the industrial policy. Addanki Dayakar, Congress MLC, requested the Mayor to defer the discussion until the next GHMC meeting.

Mayor G Vijayalakshmi agreed and said that since the subject was not included in the agenda, it would be discussed in the next GHMC meeting. However, the BRS Corporators continued their protest. All the BRS MLAs also joined in the demonstration.

Addressing the protest, former Minister and senior BRS leader Talasani Srinivas Yadav said the controversial land policy was nothing short of a blueprint for corruption, designed to hand over 9,292 acres of prime industrial land to real estate barons and the influentials in the Congress Party.

“The BRS regime built Hyderabad into an industrial powerhouse. Now, the Congress is dismantling it piece by piece. We will not stand idle while our city’s future is auctioned off,” he said.

Srinivas Yadav, accompanied by former ministers including P Sabitha Indra Reddy and a large number of BRS corporators, made it clear that the party would escalate its fight against the controversial policy and the Congress party’s anti-people policies.