Harish Rao accuses Revanth of taking credit for land cases won under BRS government

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) accused Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy of taking credit for land cases fought and won by the previous BRS government. BRS Deputy Floor Leader T Harish Rao said the Chief Minister’s claims about protecting government lands from encroachments were either false or half-truths.

“Revanth Reddy should stop this credit theft drama. He should order an inquiry by a sitting judge into the Manchirevula Greyhounds registration scam, the Kanche Gachibowli broker commissions and other cases,” Harish Rao demanded.

A day after the Supreme Court delivered its verdict on the Miyapur lands, the Chief Minister was already pressuring Collectors to put the land up for sale, Harish Rao alleged.

“With whom has he taken advances?” he asked.

At a press conference here on Saturday, Harish Rao countered the Chief Minister’s claims by presenting court judgments and orders, registration documents, encumbrance certificate copies and Bhu Bharati records.

Revanth Reddy had claimed that the BRS government tried to sell 142 acres of land at



Manchirevula, worth Rs 10,000 crore, and that he had saved it.

Harish Rao dismissed this claim, saying the land had been the subject of a 50-year legal battle. In the undivided State, the Congress government lost the case before a single judge of the High Court on February 5, 2010. The judgment went in favour of private parties, and the Congress government handed over the land, Harish Rao said.

After the BRS came to power, the then Greyhounds wing informed the Chief Minister that the government had lost the Manchirevula Greyhounds land case. Permission was sought to engage senior advocates from Delhi to save the land.

Accordingly, senior Supreme Court advocates CS Vaidyanathan and Giri were engaged. On December 31, 2021, a High Court division bench ruled that the land belonged to the government. The private parties challenged the order in the Supreme Court. On August 1, 2023, the Supreme Court bench ruled that all 142 acres belonged to the State.

“The BRS government was in power on August 1, 2023. Congress lost this land. And now Revanth Reddy blames us for it,” Harish Rao said.