Revanth Reddy’s Permanent Solution Has No Arrival Date
Telangana’s landowners received a 12-point plan, a history lesson and the administrative equivalent of a loading screen.
Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has unveiled the government’s answer to Telangana’s 22-A land mess: a 12-point plan, a three-hour Assembly monologue and no deadline. It is a bold administrative innovation. Landowners may continue to possess their property in the emotional sense, while the Registration Department preserves it as a rumour.
The promised product is a “permanent solution”. The delivery schedule, however, appears to be permanent too. Revanth Reddy explained the problem through the full historical package: the previous BRS government’s Dharani system, gaps inherited from the Nizam era and incomplete surveys. The Nizam has now been invited into the government’s press conference as a co-accused, alongside BRS and the general inconvenience of history. One more Assembly speech and the Kakatiyas may be asked to explain Part-B land.
The government says private patta land on the prohibited list has fallen from 7.91 lakh acres in 2020 to 3.73 lakh acres in 2026. Part-B land, it says, has declined from about 21 lakh acres under the BRS government to roughly 17 lakh acres now. Those figures may show movement. They do not amount to relief for the people whose registrations remain blocked. A smaller locked door is still a locked door.
Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy has faced demands from the BRS for resignation and a judicial probe over alleged irregularities in the 22-A list. Those are allegations, not findings. But the government’s answer has so far leaned towards a grand tour of historical causes rather than a clean public record of who is fixing which parcel, under what authority and by what date. The Congress government has turned accountability into an archaeological excavation.
This is the Revanth Reddy model in miniature: inherit a current problem, summon the previous government, cite a century of complications, announce a framework and let the deadline evaporate inside the word “permanent”. Telangana did not need a speech explaining why land records are difficult. It needed names cleared, registrations enabled and a date that could be missed publicly rather than avoided elegantly.
The land is still there. The solution is still coming.
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