Revanth Reddy demands CBI probe into Devaryamjal lands issue

He alleges that ministers KTR, Malla Reddy, several TRS leaders have lands there

Hours after former minister Eatala Rajender criticising Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on the issue of Masaipet lands, Congress MP from Malkajigiri and Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) working president A. Revanth joined the issue and demanded a CBI probe into the encroachment of Endowments lands at Devarayamjal. “Instead of singling out Mr. Rajender, a comrade-in-arms of the TRS leadership for long, the government should institute a common probe into the issue of lands at Devarayamjal where Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao’s family, including his son and Minister K.T. Rama Rao, chairman and managing director of a newspaper owned by the ruling party D. Damodar Rao, Minister C. Malla Reddy and several other TRS leaders have lands in the survey numbers in dispute or those believed to be belonging to the Seetharamaswamy temple there,” the Congress leader said. However, since most of the TRS leaders, including the newspaper owned by the ruling party, which he said is printed in the lands in question, have mortgaged the lands with banks and borrowed huge amounts for their businesses the matter had gone beyond the State’s purview. As deceiving banks was a crime to be dealt by Central agencies, the issue was a fit case to be handed over to CBI, Mr. Revanth Reddy said speaking to newspersons on Monday. He furnished details of the land holdings of the TRS leaders in this particular parcel to buttress his claim.