Hyderabad: Even as the Telangana government was continuing with its operation clean up in the registration department following the busting of the Rs587 crore Moyapur land scam, the issue has given fresh ammunition to the opposition Congress and the BJP to target the K Chandrasekhar Rao regime.
Both the parties have demanded a CBI inquiry into the affair alleging the involvement of political bigwigs in the scam.
The state government has ordered an overhaul of the department, suspended two more Sub Registrars and transferred 29 others after it was revealed that 793 aces of government land was fraudulently registered in the name of a private company. The Crime Branch CID has launched a probe into the murky deals.
While Kukatpally Sub Registrar R Srinivas Rao and two officials of private companies have already been arrested, two more Sub Registrars. T Ramesh Chandra Reddy and Md Yusuf, were also arrested and suspended in connection with irregularities.
However, the Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh has rejected the state government action as mere hogwash and has demanded a CBI inquiry. Addressing a press conference in Hyderabad he alleged the state minister T Srinivas Yadav was involved in the scam. “The minister should resign on moral grounds. We don’t have trust in the KCR government and the inquiry should be handed over to the CBI”, he added.
Senior BJP leader Nagam Janardhan Reddy also demanded a CBI inquiry into the land scam and said that if the state government failed to hand over the probe to the central agency he would approach the High Court. He alleged that the state exchequer had suffers huge losses because of the scam.
