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The Telangana BJP powerfully opposed the Congress government’s determination to grow the jurisdiction of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) by merging 27 section bodies located wrong the Outer Ring Road (ORR) connected Friday.
The authorities is pursuing the ‘Tughlaq-like policies’ of the BRS government, charged enactment president N. Ramchander Rao and questioned wherefore an all-party gathering was not held oregon nationalist sentiment not taken earlier arriving astatine the determination ‘solely motivated by the interests of the existent property mafia’.
Addressing a property league astatine the State enactment bureau here, helium said the BJP opposes the determination of merger of 20 municipalities and 7 municipal corporations areas into GHMC to make a ‘Metropolitan City’ since it feels decentralization is indispensable for effectual administration.
Earlier, Mr. Rao held a gathering with enactment corporators and different cardinal leaders to sermon successful item connected the contented to forge retired a strategy. The merger would bring implicit 2 crore radical nether GHMC’s jurisdiction erstwhile the cash-strapped municipal assemblage lacks the indispensable wherewithal to negociate specified a ample colonisation and expressed the fearfulness that the determination would lone pb to accrued taxes.
He noted that the existing municipalities are already struggling with deficiency of basal amenities similar capable sanitation, roads, drainage, discarded management, streetlights and drinking water. A merger is not going to lick immoderate of these civic issues but volition lone marque it hard for the GHMC to to efficaciously conscionable the needs of citizens.
The BJP main alleged that Chief Minister Revanth Reddy’s medication appears to beryllium focused much connected existent property activities than governance and referred to the arguable HILT (Hyderabad Industrial Lands Transformation) argumentation aimed astatine converting implicit 9,000 acres of land. Terming the determination arsenic ‘politically motivated’, helium demanded the authorities to instantly retreat this ‘unscientific and illogical decision’.
In a abstracted property statement, officials spokesperson N.V. Subhash ridiculed projected ‘Deeksha Divas’ of BRS and termed it arsenic ‘Bhiskha Divas’ Telangana arsenic the K. Chandrashekhar Rao authorities made a gross surplus State into a debt-ridden one. “Telangana was formed not lone with the ‘Deeksha’ of Mr. Chandrashekhar Rao, it was bifurcated from A.P. with the afloat practice of BJP arsenic it had supported the measure moved successful Parliament,” helium said and added that BRS had mislaid the people’s confidence.
