Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Tuesday directed the principal secretary to the revenue department to submit an affidavit explaining on what recommendations had land been allotted to various political parties.
The court impleaded the political parties who had got land from the government as respondents to the petition and issued notices.
A division Bench comprising Chief Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta and Justice P.V. Sanjay Kumar was dealing with a petition by Nellore district resident V. Gopi Krishna, challenging a GO issued in 2009 to alienate 0.97 cents to the District Congress Committee to construct its party office at East Gudur village in Gudur mandal of the district.
Principal secretary B.R. Meena appeared before the court following its direction and placed the details of alienation of land to various political parties in the districts and also in the state headquarters.
According to the details, the state government has allotted land to the Congress, BJP, Telugu Desam, CPM, Telangana Rashtra Samiti, CPI, Visalaandhra Vignana Samiti and the CPI-ML New Democracy Party at 16 places across the state.
The government has alienated most of the land at Rs 100 per square yard to the various parties, including the TRS at Road No. 12, Banjara Hills.
It was brought to the court’s notice that the land was given on lease to the TD and the BJP for a period of 30 years and in the remaining cases, land was alienated at concessional rates.
