BJP Kisan Morcha activists, who attempted to stage a protest regarding the Dharani portal issue today, were taken into preventive custody.
Telangana BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar is reportedly planning to lodge a complaint against four district collectors with the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) for allegedly committing irregularities through the Dharani portal — a one-stop destination for agricultural land registrations — and looting large sums of money.
A day after attending a workshop organised at Manneguda by the BJP, Bandi Sanjay went to New Delhi on Wednesday, 8 February, to attend the ongoing Parliament budget session. He also went to lodge a complaint with the DoPT in the national capital, sources said.
The workshop was for BJP speakers who will attend 11,000 street-corner meetings to be conducted as part of “Praja Gosa – BJP Bharosa” from 10 to 25 February.
Addressing the party leaders at the workshop on Tuesday, Bandi Sanjay alleged that the money looted by the four officers through the portal was given to the family of Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao to gain promotions.
BRS leaders are encroaching upon people’s & govt lands worth crores of rupees through Dharani portal, with the connivance of some district collectors. We are gathering all the details. We warn such officials who are facilitating KCR family to loot the public properties.
— Bandi Sanjay Kumar (Modi Ka Parivar) (@bandisanjay_bjp) February 7, 2023
He warned that the BJP would certainly look into the behaviour of the four officers after coming to power in the next Assembly polls.
On Wednesday, the police took into preventive custody a large number of activists of BJP Kisan Morcha for attempting to stage a protest near the state Assembly, demanding that the state government make necessary changes in the Dharani portal and render justice to farmers.
The activists led by their state president K Sridhar Reddy attempted to register a protest at the Assembly but police personnel, who were supervising the security arrangements at the Assembly, immediately took them into preventive custody.
Sridhar Reddy said that KCR rendered injustice to hundreds of farmers and left them without land after launching the portal.
A majority of farmers were dependent on the agricultural land in their villages, eking out their livelihood by doing cultivation for decades.
But after the Dharani portal was launched, the farmers were unable to continue cultivation on the land due to ownership problems, he charged.
“It is the responsibility of the state government to rectify the problems in the portal and rescue farmers,” Sridhar Reddy urged.