22A ‘under review’, anger very public
Harish Rao warns of a Delhi‑style Gen Z protest if the Congress government doesn’t scrap the flawed Section 22A prohibited‑lands list. The administration has already admitted “mistakes”; the High Court wants the list online. The land‑to‑CM’s‑brother charge remains an allegation — the Congress has yet to answer it, only to say “don’t worry.”
The government has admitted errors in the Section 22A prohibited-properties list, but the corrected roll is still awaited.
T. Harish Rao told Section 22A‑hit landholders in Kukatpally that if the Congress government does not withdraw the prohibited‑properties list, Telangana will “taste a Delhi‑style movement” — and the BRS will lay siege to the Secretariat. He accused the government of acting like “a major encroacher” and alleged public lands were being steered to Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy’s family while ordinary people’s plots were locked behind 22A. Those are his allegations; the paperwork he cited wasn’t produced at the meeting.
What is on record: the Congress government has already admitted it botched the list. Revenue and Housing Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy apologised for “mistakes” by officials and said a high‑level committee will clear wrongly included private lands, including cases where whole survey extents were blocked because a small portion was Bhoodan land. The Chief Minister’s office has publicly promised sub‑numbers to separate disputed slices from clean title, and to keep court‑case lands aside. The Telangana High Court, meanwhile, has asked the state to explain why the updated 22A list still isn’t available online, noting that agricultural land details should be public. “Under review” is not transparency.
On the sharper charge — land to the CM’s brother — a separate dispute exists. A report records an industrial plot at Raviryala allotted to Tesseract Advanced Systems; BRS leaders link the company to Revanth Reddy’s brother and say the land is undervalued. The firm denies irregularity and says the process followed TGIIC norms. The state’s own approvals database shows Tesseract in the system, but not the Raviryala terms or any family link. Until the Congress government produces the allotment order, valuation and ownership trail, this stays where Harish Rao put it: an allegation the BJP‑style “trust us” doesn’t cure, and the TDP has no standing to sermonise on land either.
The facts the Congress cannot wish away are simpler: its 22A list has errors, it has delayed publishing the corrected roll, and people with clean titles are blocked from registration while being told not to worry. The High Court has asked for sunlight; the government has offered fog. If this drags on, the “Gen Z” line won’t be a metaphor — it’ll be the crowd outside the Secretariat asking why a basic land list is still a mystery.