22A errors, BRS heat, Congress hush
Harish Rao says withdraw the “22A” prohibited list or the Assembly stops. The BJP-led Centre wrote the rulebook; the Congress government in Telangana is now hiding behind it and tripping citizens anyway. The portal itself admits whole survey numbers got blocked by mistake — but the fixes are still a press line, not a dataset.
The 22A clean-up has a grievance button; the public numbers are still missing.
BRS’s T. Harish Rao told a Boduppal meeting the party will stall the Assembly if the Congress government does not withdraw the 22A prohibited list, and said the BRS would march to the Secretariat with affected residents. That specific threat is recorded in a report from the event. According to it, he also sought a sitting-judge inquiry and a forensic audit of additions and removals since December 2023.
Here is what is not up for debate: the state’s own Bhu Bharati portal runs a Prohibited Properties search and tells citizens to file a grievance to get wrongly listed land removed. It even admits entire survey numbers have been blocked as “acquired” when only a part was taken — a clerical shortcut that freezes private transactions until a Collector fixes it. That is not politics; that is the government’s site describing its own errors.
The Congress government’s response so far lives in secondary reports: Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy has apologised for hardships and announced a committee, a toll-free line and orders to treat 22A complaints as a special task. Useful, if you can find the order. The portal has the grievance button; it does not have a public count of how many complaints came in, how many were cleared, and how much land was set right.
On the law, Section 22A of the Registration Act lets governments block registration of documents opposed to public policy. The BJP-led Centre wrote that framework; Telangana implements it. Blocking fraud is the job. Blocking sales because an entire survey number was mis-marked is on the state, and the portal says that happened.
Harish Rao’s sharper charges — a Congress “conspiracy”, 30% cuts, statewide acreages and district-wise tallies — are his allegations; no public document backing those specifics surfaced in our search. What did surface is the state’s own admission that mistakes are real and a process exists to correct them.
So, Congress in Telangana: publish the list, publish the clean-up, and publish the disposals district-wise. If the errors are just legacy lists, the numbers will show it. If they are not, the numbers will show that too. Until then, the BRS threat to bring the fight to the Assembly is politics; the silence on basic data is yours.