Revanth’s Permanent Solution Leaves Telangana Permanently Waiting

Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has announced a “permanent solution” to Telangana’s 22-A land mess. The landowners waiting for an actual solution may wish to consult the calendar. Nearly 98 lakh acres remain on the prohibited list, including 29.35 lakh acres of government land, 24.63 lakh acres of assigned land and around five lakh acres involving endowment, Wakf and other categories, according to the figures cited by the government. The speech has arrived. Relief is still somewhere in the file system.

The Revanth Reddy method is now clear enough to qualify as an administrative template. Inherit a complicated problem, announce its permanent resolution, and leave the affected citizen standing precisely where the announcement found them. The only thing that moves quickly is the adjective. A land mess becomes a “permanent solution” before a private owner can establish whether their property may be legally used, sold or registered.

The government’s explanation is that entire survey numbers were placed on the prohibited list even when only part of the land was involved in a court case. That is not a small clerical wobble. It is the state reaching for a bulldozer when the paperwork required a scalpel. Meanwhile, the Congress government’s Praja Palana publicity celebrates ₹500 cooking-gas cylinders, welfare payments, smart ration cards and a 55-kilometre Musi rejuvenation project. Those policies can be debated on their own record. But a person whose land is frozen is not asking for another slogan, foundation stone or anniversary presentation. They are asking whether the state will allow the property to function as property.

This is where self-congratulation becomes a governing instrument. A pending correction is displayed as present achievement; a promise of relief is invoiced as relief itself. Telangana has not received a resolution. It has received a press-release version of one.

The 22-A list remains, the land remains frozen, and the permanent solution remains promised. The only completed transaction is between the government and its own publicity department.