The Chandrababu Naidu government is forcing the farmers to part with their multi-crop lands for a pittance and has been resorting to vindictive activities against those who are not willing to part with their land, YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy alleged on Thursday.
Addressing the farmers of Amaravati, Jagan said Naidu government had planned a four lane 200-feet road passing through the villages, razing the houses and crops or putting the villages in agriculture zone while other lands purchased by his coterie in the commercial zone.
Even assigned lands were not left out and weaker sections were made to toil and their land was changed into government land and the 1000 yards given to them has neither registration nor development and they are unable to take possession of the land.
Jagan asserted that the farmers would not part with their lands unless a fair price is given and condemned the arrogance of the state in pulling down houses in the name of road laying and development without giving due compensation.
The state has been giving only a fraction of the original cost of the land and such practice should be fought tooth and nail. Now the land here would fetch Rs 15 crore per acre but he has been asking it for Rs 30 lakh per acre and 300 families have lost shelter in the acquisition of 25 acres of land from the small and marginal farmers having small holdings, he said.
Though an alternative route was proposed from Surayapalem to Mangalagiri, Chandrababu Naidu government did not even start the work so far and the need for seed capital access road would not have arisen, he said adding that the Chief Minister has been delaying the issue.
