Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy said that former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao deceived farmers in the name of the Dharani Portal. He said that KCR who thought that he knew everything and would not lend his ear to anyone and his sycophant CS (former CS Somesh Kumar) introduced the Dharani Portal arrogantly. He said that these bigwigs who were expected to guard the assets of the public introduced the Dharani Portal and did extreme injustice. Launching the discussion on ‘Dharani’ on Friday in the Assembly, Ponguleti said the BRS government looted the meagre assets of the poor using the Dharani Portal. Due to the unjust policies of the BRS government, every commoner in every village has now landed in land disputes, the Revenue Minister said.
Stating that the Dharani Portal which was introduced in 2020, became a curse on farmers, Ponguleti said the farmers are now hanging around officials for a solution to Dharanicreated land issues and are finding that there is no solution. These issues were created by an ‘intellectual’ (KCR) and an ‘officer’ (Somesh Kumar), he said. Telangana was in the clutches of KCR during the last 10 years who said that he will show the nation its direction, he said. However, farmers are now facing severe problems due to the Dharani Portal Act. He said the government is receiving thousands of applications seeking solutions to land issues. KCR handed over the Dharani Portal to ILFS by bringing in the ROR–2020 Act. Later, Dharani went into the hands of Terrosis, a bankrupt foreign company. KCR handed over the details of 2.50 crore farmers to a bankrupt company even though he knew that the company was bankrupt as he wanted to hand over lands to his sycophants, he said. “Dharani was started with three heads and it increased to 33 heads. Dharani became a devil who made the assets of the poor invisible. They kept the entire land of farmers in the prohibited list if there was a problem in one survey number. Lakhs of farmers are facing problems due to keeping their lands in the prohibited list. We will give the disappeared lands to the poor. The lands of the poor went into the hands of Doras,” he said. Ponguleti said the BRS government had accepted applications assuring that it will give title deeds to sada bynamas, however, the BRS admin did not give an option to do it in the new Act.
