50,565 acres claimed; arithmetic finds 433 missing

BRS leader T. Harish Rao has demanded that 50,565 acres across five Patancheru-area mandals be removed from Telangana’s prohibited-properties list, warning of a Sangareddy Collectorate siege and a “vanta-varpu” protest if the issue is not resolved within a week. The demand followed a meeting with affected residents on August 29, organised under Patancheru MLA Gudem Mahipal Reddy. [1][2]

The claim comes with an arithmetic problem. The mandal-wise figures reported alongside it—12,432 acres in Gummadidala, 3,200 in Ameenpur, 8,300 in Ramachandrapuram, 12,300 in Patancheru and 13,900 in Jinnaram—add up to 50,132 acres. The missing 433 acres have not been explained. Numbers, unlike political speeches, are expected to meet.

The official Bhu Bharati portal provides a prohibited-properties search and a process for applications to correct or remove entries, subject to examination by the Collector. Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy has also ordered officials to review genuine applications and publish supporting records. But the government has not publicly established the 50,565-acre total, the number of affected homes, or that all the properties were wrongly included. Harish Rao’s office and the Sangareddy administration have not publicly explained the 433-acre gap in the material reviewed.