Karimnagar land row gets a 6,000-acre question
The BRS says four villages are trapped under Section 22A. The records needed to settle the claim are still missing.
Residents and political leaders have sought records to clarify the status of land in four Karimnagar villages.
The BRS and residents protested in Karimnagar on September 3, demanding the removal of about 6,000 acres from the Section 22A prohibited-property list. The protest covered Rekurthi, Sitarampur, Kothapalli and Chinthakunta, and was led by former minister and Karimnagar MLA Gangula Kamalakar. A road blockade, because land records apparently needed a little public theatre before becoming public records.
Kamalakar alleged that patta lands were added after the Congress government came to power and said the BRS would raise the issue in the Assembly session beginning September 7. The allegation has not been independently established. No survey-number-wise acreage, notification dates, land-category records or rejected registration documents were available in the material reviewed. The Karimnagar district administration confirms the four villages are revenue villages under Kothapally mandal.
The administration’s own records identify the Chief Commissioner of Land Administration as chair of the committee handling grievances under Section 22-A(1)(e). No public response from the Congress government in Telangana, the district administration or the Revenue and Registration departments addressing the 6,000-acre claim was located. The paperwork that could settle the dispute remains the part nobody has produced.