Embattled Kadapa MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy on Sunday hit
out at the Central Bureau of Investigation daring it to inquire alleged
irregularities in land allotments during the regimes of the Telugu Desam
Party and the present Congress government headed by N. Kiran Kumar
Reddy.
When States like Tamil Nadu, Gujarat give land to
industries as part of industrial development free of cost, no one
questions the integrity of the Chief Ministers there. When my father
allotted land to two pharmaceutical companies at Rs. 7 lakh per acre, it
is being considered as a crime,” he said.
Referring
to the TDP rule, Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy said, “Mr. Chandrababu Naidu gave
away prime land to IMG, Emaar in Hyderabad for peanuts. Why hasn't the
CBI probed these nefarious deals?”
The YSR Congress
Party chief hit out at the Chief Minister alleging that he had allotted
land to a cement factory at a rate of just Rs.1 lakh per acre.
“I
am being framed after I bought the land for Bharati Cements by paying
Rs.1 lakh per acre,” the YSR Congress president quipped.
In his first public reaction a day after the
CBI filed a charge-sheet in the court in illegal assets case, Mr.
Jaganmohan Reddy, who is in Guntur as part of his ‘Odarpu yatra',
defended the land allotments during his father former Chief Minister, Y.
S. Rajasekhara Reddy's rule.
He said land was
allotted to Aurobindo and Hetero Pharmaceutical companies at Jadcherla
in Mahabubnagar district with a view to generating employment in the
backward districts.
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