Assembly from Today: Focus on 22A Row, Welfare & KCR’s Absence
Revanth holds marathon review with Ponguleti, top officials and 4 district collectors on contentious 22A row
Hyderabad: The Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy-led Congress government’s welfare and development initiatives during its 1,000-day rule, the revenue department’s goof-up on inclusion of private properties in the prohibitory list under Section 22A of the Registration Act and inter-state river water disputes are expected to dominate the Monsoon Session of the Assembly commencing on Monday.
The session will be for a short duration though the number of days and the business to be transacted would be decided at the Business Advisory Committee meeting. This session too will not see BRS supremo and Leader of Opposition K. Chandrashekar Rao with his party announcing that he would not attend the session. The BRS announcement came on the day the Congress organised a maha dharna at Dharna Chowk, Indira Park, on Sunday demanding the resignation of Chandrashekar Rao for failure to perform his duties as Leader of Opposition.
Gaining strength from the recent political developments, and renewed confidence posed in him by the Congress high command, as reflected in the ouster of endowments and forest minister Konda Surekha from the Cabinet, Chief Minister Revanth Reddy would aggressively push a two-pronged strategy during the session – highlighting the government’s initiatives and attacking Chandrashekar Rao for what he called s running away from the Assembly.
There was hectic political activity in both the ruling party and BRS on Sunday with the Chief Minister holding a marathon meeting with revenue minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy, senior department officials and collectors of Hyderabad, Rangareddy, Medchal-Malkajgiri and Sangareddy districts on the highly contentious 22A inclusions. The BRS and the BJP are expected to launch scathing attack against the government, in particular the revenue minister, over the issue.
Chandrashekar Rao on the other hand held a legislature party meeting in his Erravalli farmhouse and asked party legislators to highlight what he called the overall failure of the Congress government. “We will thoroughly expose the government’s failures, lies and inaction on the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation scheme besides delay in the Palamuru project,” BRS deputy floor leader T. Harish Rao told mediapersons.
With regard to the official business, the state government is all set to introduce the titled Core Urban Region (Integrated Governance) Bill, 2026 (known as the CURE Bill). It was necessitated by the formation of three corporations in place of the GHMC. The Bill will replace the old Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Act of 1955. The government also wants to change the existing land acquisition policy, paving way for a path-breaking land-pooling model with ratio of 60:40 land share between government and land owner. However, sources said the Bill may not be introduced in this session.
