The exposure of massive land scam running into crores of rupees in and around the new capital city of Amaravati has landed Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu in deep trouble.
Right from the beginning, there have been allegations that there was huge land mafia in selecting Tulluru (presently Amaravati core area) for capital construction, ignoring the expert committee recommediation of Donakonda-Martur area of Prakasam district, only because the land mafia being run by a particular community had purchased large tracts of land in and around Amaravati area. The Sakshi expose on Wednesday clearly established these allegations.
The report created ripples in the Naidu cabinet and the Chief Minister immediately plunged into action to do the damage control.
He instructed his close confidants in the Cabinet including Prattipati Pulla Rao and Narayana to see that not a single evidence should be there to prove illegal land transactions of Lokesh or other TDP leaders.
“After ensuring that there are no documentary evidences on benami land transactions, both the ministers held a press conference and challenged the YSRC leaders to prove the allegations. They even said they would donate all the benami lands, if they have any, to the landless poor,” sources said.
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