Kancha Gachibowli land row: AICC begins damage control exercise

Amicable solution will be worked out after seeking versions of all stakeholders, says Meenakshi Natarajan

HYDERABAD: With the Congress government facing severe criticism from all quarters over the Kancha Gachibowli land issue, AICC Telangana in-charge Meenakshi Natarajan on Saturday said the versions of all stakeholders would be sought and that an amicable solution would be worked out.

She arrived in the city for a damage control exercise after the Supreme Court orders to the Congress government here to stop all activities in the contentious lands spread over 400 acres. Speaking to the media after a meeting with the three-Minister committee comprising Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, Industries Minister D Sridhar Babu and Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy, Natarajan said she was here to meet students, civil society groups and intellectuals and work out a “middle way”.

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During these two days, versions of all stakeholders would be recorded. Until a 360 degree view was not obtained over the issue, it would not be wise to speak on behalf or for any one side, she said.

“I will listen to all the sides. A clear path can be worked out only through dialogue. No one should be at loss,” Natarajan said.

Later, she held a meeting with NSUI and Youth Congress representatives at Gandhi Bhavan in the presence of TPCC president Mahesh Kumar Goud, AICC Secretary PC Vishnunath and others. NSUI HCU representatives are learnt to have demanded that the multiple FIRs registered against the students should be withdrawn.

Also expressing concern over reported plans to shift the University to the Future City, the NSUI demanded that such proposals should be scrapped. The Bangalore University model of preserving the green space as a biopark on the campus should be explored, they insisted, also demanding measures for an Environmental Impact Assessment on the contentious land.