BJP’s 23-lakh-acre bomb still has no audit
Alleti Maheshwar Reddy calls the Telangana Assembly session a Congress–BRS drama. The dramatic part, so far, is the missing primary record.
The audit and supporting records cited in the Assembly have not been made public.
The BJP has called Telangana’s five-day monsoon session a “Congress–BRS drama”, but its biggest Dharani claim is still waiting for a document to arrive.
BJP Legislature Party leader Alleti Maheshwar Reddy alleged that a forensic audit had flagged 13,000 transactions involving nearly 23 lakh acres. He also alleged that BJP members’ microphones were cut when they raised land and corruption issues. Multiple reports carried the claims, but the audit, microphone logs, Assembly transcript and official response have not surfaced. A claim repeated several times is still a claim.
The session did produce documented disruption. Reports say BRS legislators were suspended after protests involving police treatment of women MLAs and remarks concerning K Chandrasekhar Rao. Secondary reports disagree on whether 21 or 22 MLAs were suspended. BJP members also disrupted Question Hour while demanding a judicial inquiry into 22-A land issues. The Assembly record would settle the details, if anyone releases it.
Telangana’s Dharani problems are not imaginary: government releases recorded large pending backlogs and acknowledged defects in the system. But that does not magically authenticate the BJP’s 13,000-transaction figure. The Congress government can publish the audit; the BJP can publish the evidence behind its accusation. Until then, the loudest thing in the room is the missing paperwork.