Not all demolished buildings are illegal: Eatala

Terming HYDRAA as a big drama, the BJP’s Malkajgiri MP, Eatala Rajender, said that not all buildings in FTL areas and buffer zones are illegal. Some of them are on lands with title deeds, he said. All buildings demolished by HYDRAA are not illegal and it is just a drama to extort money from builders, he said.
He said the Congress governments had behaved vengefully in the past by demolishing the houses of the poor with bulldozers and added that the current government is behaving unjustly by targeting the poor. HYDRAA is mostly demolishing buildings on Saturdays and Sundays as courts are off on these days.
Eatala asked the government to collect the details of government and private lands first to protect lakes and ponds.
He also demanded the government to pay compensation immediately to the poor who are now on the roads after the demolitions.
There is internal bickering in the Congress government, he said, adding that the government started demolitions to divert public attention from the infighting in the Congress.
The lands of the poor are not Chief Minister Revanth Reddy’s ancestral property to grab in the name of HYDRAA, he said and demanded that the government should acquire land if it wanted to protect water bodies.