HYDERABAD, JUNE 24 :  Senior Congress leader and Advisor to the Telangana Government (SC, ST, BC & Minorities), Mohammed Ali Shabbir on Monday demanded the A Revanth Reddy government cancel the land allocated to BRS party offices across the state.

Addressing the media at Gandhi Bhavan here, Ali while raising serious concerns over the allocation of prime land for BRS party offices, stated that the previous BRS-led KCR government allocated 11 acres of prime land worth Rs 1,100 crore in Kokapet for just Rs 37 crore for the BRS office.

Similar prime land were also allotted for BRS party offices in District headquarters in the state, he pointed out and demanded the Congress government in power to cancel such land allocations.

Congress will also enquire into the allocation of land for BRS party offices across Telangana, he said.
He said the Kokapet prime land given to the BRS party should be auctioned and its proceeds should be utilised for crop loan waiver and Rythu Bharosa schemes.

In recent Lok Sabha elections, the BRS party did not win a single seat and it lost deposits in eight out of 17 seats it contested, and got only 16.68 voting percent of votes, however in Assembly elections, it got 37.3 percent, said Shabbir Ali.

This drastic fall in voting percentage is proof that BRS is almost finished. “Why such a small party need such big offices,” he questioned.

The BRS party already has an office in Banjara Hills in the city, he added.
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi meanwhile has decided to move the Supreme Court seeking disqualification of the party MLAs who defected to the ruling Congress, defying the people’s mandate in the recent Assembly polls.

The party leadership decided in consultation with the legal experts given the completion of three months after Khairatabad MLA Danam Nagender switched allegiance to the Congress, according to party sources here.

According to a previous judgment of the Apex Court, the Assembly Speaker must decide on disqualification petitions within three months.

BRS had won 39 of the total 119 Assembly seats in the elections held last year, while Congress came to power with 64 seats. However, the Congress’ number increased to 65 after the party won the Secunderabad Cantonment by-poll following the demise of BRS MLA G Lasya Nanditha in a road accident earlier this year.

Since the Assembly elections held in December last year, five out of 39 BRS MLAs have left the party.
While Danam Nagender, Kadiam Srihari, and Tellam Venkat Rao joined the Congress before the Lok Sabha polls, Banswada MLA and former Assembly Speaker Pocharam Srinivas Reddy and Jagtial MLA Sanjay Kumar defected to the ruling Congress party within three days.(UNI)