Congress Finds Permanent Solution: Another Telangana Committee
Revanth Reddy’s government has reduced the 22-A crisis to arithmetic, blame and a waiting room with official stationery.
The Congress government in Telangana has discovered a permanent solution to the 22-A land crisis: announce a committee, promise a policy and leave the land prohibited. Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has ordered a high-powered panel to examine 12 categories of disputes. Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy has offered sympathy, statistics and a historical tour of the previous BRS government’s alleged sins. Immediate relief for private owners still trapped on the list remains unavailable, presumably because it is waiting for a committee to certify that land is attached to addresses.
Ponguleti first apologised to property owners for the hardship. In the Assembly, the blame moved neatly backwards to BRS and Dharani. The prohibited-properties list, he said, stood at 1,02,05,250 acres on 31 August 2026, including 3,73,930 acres of private agricultural land and 1,94,543 acres of private non-agricultural land. The government’s defence is a triumph of administrative optimism: the figure was 1,02,52,690 acres in December 2023, so 47,440 acres have apparently been liberated. The remaining 1,02,05,250 acres can take comfort from the progress report.
This is the Congress model of functioning in Telangana: first inherit the problem, then inherit the microphone, then hold a debate about who inherited it. BRS is blamed for the mess, the present government is praised for trimming the spreadsheet, and the citizen whose property remains frozen is invited to admire the downward trend. A landowner cannot register, sell or use the property normally, but can apparently participate in a robust improvement narrative.
Revanth Reddy calls the proposed exercise a “permanent solution”. In government language, permanent now means long enough to survive the next press conference. Ponguleti supplies the figures, the Chief Minister supplies the promise, Congress supplies the blame and the file supplies the silence. Telangana’s land is still prohibited. Responsibility has been regularised elsewhere.
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