22-A blunder is real. ‘Lakhs of crores’? Show it.
The Congress government admits Section 22‑A errors and promises fixes. The BJP now shouts “lakhs of crores” without a calculation. Telangana deserves corrections — and evidence, not slogans.
The Section 22-A errors are documented; the larger claims still need the numbers.
The record first. Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy has admitted officials wrongly pushed genuine properties into the Section 22‑A prohibited list and promised to sort it by August-end 2026, with a committee reviewing entries and orders put online. That is an administrative failure — and it is on the government to fix it fast. According to the government’s own Bhu Bharati portal, one way the mess happens is simple and sloppy: when only a slice of a survey number is acquired, the entire survey number sometimes gets blocked by mistake. The portal says those entries can be corrected and split so the balance land is restored.
Now the BJP line. Its Legislature Party leader Alleti Maheshwar Reddy claims the Congress government has engineered a “lakhs of crores” land scam using 22‑A, even throwing in a ₹15,000‑crore benami angle and a ₹200‑crore-a-month-to-Delhi story for flavour. What he has not offered is the boring part that proves it: which lands, what extent, what valuation, what documents. The protest dates are specific; the math is not.
Here’s what is established in the material reviewed: errors happened, real owners were hit, the ‘entire survey number’ mistake exists, and a correction process is underway. Here’s what is not established: any calculation that turns that documented failure into “lakhs of crores”, or a paper trail for the ₹15,000‑crore and ₹200‑crore claims. Telangana needs the government to finish the clean‑up it promised — and it needs the BJP to bring evidence, not a megaphone. If the Congress‑run administration drags its feet, that’s on it; the BJP’s arithmetic by slogan is on it too.