The controversy over the agreement signed by the close family of YSR Congress party general secretary and Rajya Sabha member V Vijay Sai Reddy with Daspalla family members for the development of prime land of 15 acres in Visakhapatnam worth over Rs 2,000 crore has definitely caused a lot of embarrassment to the MP.
While the opposition parties are naturally crying foul over the agreement and demanding a CBI inquiry into the whole deal, the MP got a reliable information that the information was leaked to the media by some top YSRC leaders themselves, who are nurturing a grouse against Sai Reddy.
Sources within the party said Sai Reddy brought this to the notice of chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy and complained how some people were trying to sabotage him.
He particularly expressed doubts over a senior leader who is closely related to Jagan and is holding a prominent post. This particular leader was working against Sai Reddy in Visakhapatnam.
It is learnt Jagan has called this YSRC leader to his chamber and pulled him up. He said the entire Dasapalla lands deal was done with full knowledge of him and was done as per the Supreme Court directions and there were no irregularities involved in the same.
The chief minister asked the party leader not to poke his nose into the entire Dasapalla lands deal hereafter, after which he has gone silent.
The development agreement was signed in June 2021 by the Daspalla royal family of Odisha with Assure Estates Developers LLP, in which Sai Reddy’s daughter and son-in-law are the directors.
The Daspalla lands, which were till then in the prohibited list of the government due to the legal dispute, were removed from the list soon after the agreement.
A memo issued by the Jagan government on September 27 removing the Daspalla lands from the prohibitory list and returning the same to Daspallas triggered the row.
The Opposition parties and social activists are demanding a CBI probe into the whole episode.
