Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka has alleged that the State government is acting like a land broker in the matter of land acquisition for Pharma City by snatching it from the poor to give it to multinational companies.
Speaking to reporters here on Monday, he said instead of distributing land to the landless dalit families at three acres per family as promised in 2014, the TRS government is snatching the assigned land given to dalit communities by the previous governments in the name of Pharma City. A total of nearly 8,000 acres of assigned lands were taken back from dalit, tribal and other small and marginal farmers for the project, he alleged. Although one could support the government acts of land acquisition for public interests – for projects such as Srisailam and Nagarjunsagar or industrial units of BHEL and ECIL, taking lands for…