Former CM ignores advice not to allot land to Desam legislator for property taken by HMDA
TDP MLA Payyavula Keshav
Hyderabad: They may be bitter critics of each other on the floor of the state Assembly, but former chief minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy went out of the way to help firebrand Telugu Desam MLA Payyavula Keshav. The former CM directed Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority to allot a house site to Mr Keshav’s family as the latter's father and former MLA Mr Venkata Narayana could not get a plot in the posh MLA colony in Banjara Hills.
Sources told Deccan Chronicle that, the former Chief Minister cleared the file a few days before he quit, despite the MAUD department recommending against allotment of the house site. “The department had initially rejected the proposal, but following the Chief Minister’s clearance it issued a memo asking HMDA to implement the CM’s order,” sources said.
Mr Keshav represented to then CM that his father paid Rs 28 lakh to the MLAs Housing Society and was allotted a plot that was taken over by the erstwhile HUDA. In lieu of the plot his father lost, the TD MLA wanted the government to provide an alternative house site. The file was initially moved by the Registrar of Cooperative Societies and without obtaining the opinion of MAUD or HMDA, the former had recommended that the government could consider providing an alternative site. The file was then circulated to MAUD which obtained the opinion of HMDA.
“The HMDA clearly established that it did not take a single square yard from the MLA Colony and it only auctioned the adjacent land,” sources said.
Maintaining that the plot which was claimed by Mr Keshav was not at all part of the official layout approved for the MLA Colony, the HMDA refused to provide an alternative site. Based on the opinion of HMDA, the MAUD also recommended that no alternative site could be provided. Mr Kiran, however, ignored the recommendation and directed the department to implement his previous order.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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