Revanth’s 22-A Cure Is Another Government File

Telangana’s land crisis has finally found a government that understands urgency. Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has ordered a 30-day report on government land around KCR’s Erravalli farmhouse, while offering the possibility that illegally held land could be redistributed to Dalits. The state’s property owners, meanwhile, remain invited to admire the efficiency from behind their frozen registration requests.

The Assembly numbers were delivered with the confidence of a government presenting a balance sheet rather than a blockage. Revanth said land linked to KCR’s family ran into hundreds of acres, including holdings associated with KCR, KTR, Harish Rao and K Kavitha’s families. Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy supplied the larger administrative landscape: the 22-A list covered more than one crore acres as of August 31, across government, forest, assigned, endowment and private categories. The government’s arithmetic is moving. The citizen’s land is not.

The Congress government is also proud that disputed private patta land on the prohibited list has fallen from 7.91 lakh acres in 2020 to 3.73 lakh acres in 2026, while the broader Part-B category has declined from roughly 21 lakh acres under the BRS to about 17 lakh acres now. This is the new administrative miracle: the queue is shorter, therefore nobody in the queue is entitled to ask when the counter will open.

Congress inherited a defective system. That is a valid explanation, not a permanent lease on responsibility. Revanth Reddy’s government has chosen the more theatrical route: turn a statewide land-registration failure into a morality play about the KCR family. The BRS, for its part, answers every question about its own record by pointing at Congress’s. Between Revanth’s farmhouse deadline and the BRS’s defensive reflex, ordinary landowners have been cast as extras in a family sequel neither side intends to finish.

The 30-day report is due in October. Section 22-A has already had years to become policy. In Telangana, even land gets stuck in the opposition.