Hyderabad: Congress leader and Khairatabad MLA Danam Nagender flayed his own party and censured the Telangana government against demolitions of supposed unauthorised structures that are being carried out by the Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRA) in the city.
Khairatabad MLA Danam Nagender questioned the government as to why it hasn’t demolished Prasad’s IMAX theater and Jala Vihar which are built across åcross the Hussain Sagar.
He further said, “It is not right to demolish the houses of the poor, the government must make alternative arrangements for the evictees.” He alleged that the marking of houses for demolition by HYDRA has been done hastily and urged the government to construct homes for the evictees in the nearby areas.
On Sunday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also attacked the Telangana government over the demolition of encroachments on the banks of the Musi River for the riverfront development project. BJP Karimnagar MP and Union minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar announced that the party will take out a rally against the HYDRA demolitions in a day or two. “Does Indira amma Rajyam mean demolition of house of the poor?” he asked.
Why don’t you demolish Prasad’s IMAX?: Eatala to Revanth on HYDRA
Previously BJP MP from Malkajgiri Etala Rajender also questioned as to why the Telangana government hasn’t demolished the Prasad’s IMAX and Jala Vihar. The Malkajgiri MP expressed dismay over the demolition of illegal structures carried out by the Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRA) across the city.
In a sharp attack on the Congress, Eatala said, “Why doesn’t the government acquire lands like it acquired space for pharma city? Why is the government destroying people’s homes as if it is their ancestral property?”
A day earlier on September 28, Telangana Musi Riverfront Development Corporation MD M Dana Kishore has made it clear that nobody will be forcefully evicted, or will be manhandled while being shifted to 2BHK houses from buffer zones and bed of the Musi River. He said that only after shifting them to their new houses, their old houses will be demolished.
Addressing media at his office in Masab Tank on Saturday, he said that drone survey of the 55-km stretch of the Musi River had revealed that 10,200 structures (houses) were built on the river bed and in the buffer zone.
“I’m not saying that the people have encroached or something else, but it is a fact. They are saying that the government is forcefully evicting them, but I want to tell them that if the government wanted to demolish or forcefully evict them it would have done much earlier,” he said about the homes on the Musi river.
