BRS demands resignation of Telangana Revenue Minister over section 22A prohibited lands issue

HYDERABAD

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has demanded that Minister for Revenue Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy resign from his post taking moral responsibility for causing confusion and anxiety among lakhs of land owners by including their holdings in the prohibited list under Section 22A of the Registration Act.

Speaking at a protest organised demanding cancellation of the list of lands included under Section 22A immediately, in Malkajigiri on Tuesday (August 18, 2026), Deputy Floor Leader of the party in the Assembly T. Harish Rao also wanted the government to delist the lands from the prohibited list. The protest was organised by the Malkajgiri MLA Marri Rajashekhar Reddy

Legislators Marri Rajashekhar Reddy and Kaleru Venkatesh Yadav and other leaders of the party participated in the protest. Mr. Harish Rao sought to know why the government had included the lands in the prohibited list after the Urban Land Ceiling Act was scrapped in 2008. He alleged that lakhs of private properties (lands) in Hyderabad, Rangareddy and Medchal districts alone were included in the prohibited list by issuing thousands of Government Orders (G.Os).

He explained that lands covered by exemptions issued through various Government Orders, including around 7,500 lands in Rangareddy district and more than 6,000 properties in Medchal, along with HMDA and HUDA lands, had also been included in the prohibited list.

The overnight inclusion of lands in the prohibited list had pushed the lives of lakhs of poor and the middle class families — who had purchased flats and plots — into distress. He questioned whether expression of a mere apology would rectify the mistake.

He accused the ruling party leaders of demanding 30% of land value as commission, in addition to the land development rightsz, to get the lands de-listed from the prohibited category. He asked who instructed the inclusion of lands under the prohibited lists. Escaping the responsibility by showing some officials as the reason would not be tolerated, he said.