Telangana Rasthra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is understood to have given a “parting gift” to former union minister M Venkaiah Naidu, who has been chosen as NDA’s candidate for the vice-president post.
According to reports, under the directions from KCR, the Hyderabad Municipal Administration and Urban Development department issued orders exempting Swarna Bharati Trust belonging to Venkaiah’s daughter Deepa from paying various charges. However, the order was not made public for the obvious reasons.
The land was apparently given to Venkaiah’s trust by one of KCR’s close friends and real estate tycoon at Muchintal village of Shamshabad district.
Now, the KCR government issued orders exempting payment of a total of Rs 2.21 crore to HMDA towards developmental charges for total site area, proportionate layout charges, open space charges and compounding charges, for building in an extent of 36,143.5 square metres. The trust has to pay just Rs 26 lakh.
Prior to giving the orders on June 20, Deepa appealed to the Telangana government in March, requesting waiver of development charges for total site area.
And KCR personally visited the area and extended all the support to the trust. After all, it is not the question of Telangana, it is the question of personal friendship!
