BRS leaders prevented from visiting body of HYDRAA victim Buchamma

The team visited Gandhi Hospital to see her body, but the police declined permission and refused to share any information pertaining to her postmortem.

Hyderabad: A BRS team led by party MLAs T. Harish Rao, P Sabitha Indra Reddy and Krishna Rao was disallowed from visiting the body of Buchamma, who was called the first victim of the Hyderabad Disaster Response and Assets Protection Agency (HYDRAA) demolition drive.

She died, allegedly by suicide in the wake of threats reportedly from HYDRAA to demolish her house in the vicinity of Nallacheruvu in Kukatpally constituency.

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The team visited Gandhi Hospital to see her body, but the police declined permission and refused to share any information pertaining to her postmortem.

This led to heated arguments between the police and the BRS delegation. They called it a murder committed by Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and questioned how many more lives he wanted to take in the name of HYDRAA. They claimed that three people had died by suicide so far due to HYDRAA’s actions.

Harish Rao said an action plan would be announced soon to fight demolition of the houses of the poor after taking all the party MLAs in the city limits.

The previous Congress and Telugu Desam governments gave permissions for constructions. Who gave Revanth Reddy the authority to demolish homes that have been established for 30 years, he asked.

According to the Land Acquisition Act, 2013, if the poor were evicted, they should be compensated and a new house should be built. The act, brought by the Congress government, states that Rs.5 lakh will be given as a living allowance. But there is no such move to support the displaced, he said.