PNS|Hyderabad
While dealing with the petition filed by the TPCC Campaign Committee Co-Chairman Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy on the survey conducted on his SR Gardens function hall by Nagarjuna Sagar Project (NSP) and Revenue Department officials, the High Court directed the State government to submit a counter affidavit and also ordered status-quo on the issue.
The HC posted the case on August 1. Justice Vijaysen Reddy’s Bench heard the case on Tuesday and made it clear that the government should not take any action till further orders.
The NSP and Revenue officials had conducted a survey and confirmed that 21 guntas of land belong to the NSP. However, Ponguleti said in his petition that he had constructed the function hall 13 years ago and that the government had surveyed his lands as part of its political vengeance.
Speaking to the media, Ponguleti wondered whether rules will change depending on whether he continues in the BRS or leaves it.
He said that it was shocking on the part of the BRS government to say that he had grabbed 21 guntas of land. “Our family has 130 acres. The government has been troubling us wilfully. How can a problem arise suddenly now when there was no problem during the last 13 years? The BRS government is trying to take revenge against me as the Khammam public meeting had become a big success. I will fight the BRS government through the courts. The BRS government is blaming me as the graph of the Congress is rising. BRS leaders fear the signals coming from the public that the Congress will soon come to power,” he said.
