YSRCP goes ga-ga over top court order on R-5 zone

Vijayawada: The ruling YSR Congress Party described as vindication of its stand the green signal given by the Supreme Court for distribution of house-sites by creating R-5 zone in Amaravati to economically weaker sections.

While the SC upheld the right of the State to give house-sites to the poorer sections from the land pooled for development of the capital during the erstwhile TDP regime, the Amaravati farmers’ JAC and few others who approached the apex court against the AP High Court’s refusal to restrain the implementation of gazette notification for giving house-sites to the economically weaker sections did not get a favourable outcome. However, the JAC office-bearers said the court said everything depended on final judgement, which is yet to come. They said the court has only given a conditional order.

As the elections due next year are fast approaching and the political atmosphere is slowly heating up, the ruling party hopes that the decision to convert sites earmarked for electronic clusters to the poorer sections, as there is a provision to allot five per cent of sites acquired to the poorer sections, will certainly fetch it dividends.

Social Welfare Minister M Nagarjuna told the media at the party’s central office at Tadepalli on Thursday that the farmers and those supporting the TDP had tried to stop the distribution of sites to the poor non-local families. He said the government is keen on distributing sites in the R-5 zone created in an area of 900 acres in Amaravati region.

Minister for Municipal Administration Audimulapu Suresh welcomed the judgement and alleged that the TDP opposed the move fearing that it would upset its real estate interest.

The ruling party hailed the Supreme Court judgment allowing the government to go ahead with the allotment and distribution of house-sites to the poor in the R-5 zone in Amaravati capital region.

Earlier, party leader D Manikya Vara Prasad and MP N Suresh said that the apex court verdict dismissing the Special Leave Petition (SLP) of the ‘TDP-backed Amaravati farmers’ has proved the commitment of the Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy towards the welfare and economic empowerment of the poor.

Describing the judgement as the victory of the government over the mindgame unleashed by the ‘feudalistic’ TDP and their supporters, Manikya Varaprasad said that the Chief Minister has been treating the welfare of the SCs, STs, BCs, minorities and the poor as the diktats of the Panchama Vedas.

The TDP and its friendly-media unnecessarily raised a hue and cry over allotment of house-sites in a meagre 900 acres out of the 50,000 acres available in the Amaravati capital region but the dream of the poor has become a reality thanks to the determination of Chief Minister, he added, appealing to the civil society to stand by the government and Chief Minister in his fight against the feudalists.

“Naidu fears that the market value of the lands in the capital region owned by his supporters and benamis will go down if the poor are allotted house sites,” Suresh said, adding that his ulterior motives are thwarted as the apex court dismissed the farmers’ petition vindicating the stand of the government.

Questioning the intentions of Naidu and his supporters in opposing the allotment of house sites to the poor, he said the TDP chief wants to drive away the poor from the capital region and appealed to the people to be wary of the selfish designs of the former Chief Minister.