Harish Rao Warns BRS Will Stall Assembly Over Section 22A Land Listings

Former minister and BRS deputy floor leader T. Harish Rao on Sunday warned that his party would stall the upcoming Assembly session and lay siege to the Secretariat if the state government fails to immediately withdraw prohibitory land listings under Section 22A. He issued the warning while addressing a meeting organised by the BRS in support of affected residents in Boduppal.

Harish Rao demanded the immediate removal of properties located in Tirumala Meadows, Lakshmi Ganapathi, and Hemanagar colonies from the restricted list. The public meeting in Boduppal was attended by several local leaders, including former minister Mallareddy and former Uppal MLA Lakshma Reddy.

Speaking at the gathering, Harish Rao alleged that fully registered houses were deliberately placed under Section 22A to facilitate illegal collections. He stated that middle-class homeowners have been left distressed, unable to sell their properties or obtain bank loans. He highlighted complaints from residents who found their property documents rejected when seeking collateral for education, marriages, or medical emergencies simply because their houses figured in the prohibitory list.

The BRS leader also alleged that the government removed Section 22A details from the Bhu Bharati portal overnight. He demanded that the full list be restored and published in the public domain for transparency. According to Harish Rao, approximately 40 lakh acres across Telangana have been included in the prohibited list under the current administration. In his address, he accused Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy of acting to promote real-estate interests.

Harish Rao further argued that private, patta-owned properties had been wrongly added to the prohibitory listings despite the Urban Land Ceiling Act being repealed years ago. He questioned why ordinary citizens should be forced to visit government offices and submit multiple applications to rectify mistakes made by officials, demanding instead that the government suo motu clear the affected properties from the list without placing an administrative burden on homeowners.