Houses in Blind Colony Razed to Ground at Midnight by Cops in Palamur: Srinivas Goud

Hyderabad: Stating that he has no enemies in Telangana, former minister Srinivas Goud questioned as to who would conspire against him.

Speaking to the media at Telangana Bhavan on Friday, he alleged that around 400 policemen went to the Blind Colony in Mahabubnagar in the middle of the night and demolished the houses of the blind. He claimed that the police did not let the blind go even though the blind pleaded. Srinivas Goud said although the blind begged them that they would take their belongings, the police did not show mercy. “In 2007, the Congress government gave the pattas to the needy. The BRS government had given Mission Bhagiratha water,” he said, adding that for four years, the beneficiaries built houses with chits and pension money. Action should be taken against those who gave the pattas to the poor.

He claimed that there was no pond in the colony of the blind and added that the land was also not worth crores of rupees. Stating that the government authorities gave 30 days notice to the powerful people before taking any action against their illegal constructions, but the same principle of natural justice was not applied in the issue of the blind, he bemoaned.

Srinivas Goud criticized that the rich were being treated differently. “Without giving notice, is there anywhere in the law to demolish houses,” he asked. Goud called upon all parties to respond in a humane manner in the issue. He demanded that pucca houses should be constructed for the blind wherever the government demolished their houses.