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Hyderabad: The opposition parties in Andhra Pradesh yesterday jointly staged a sit-in against the auction of government lands.
The main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) warned the successful bidders that if his party returns to power in the next year's elections, it will take back the auctioned lands.
Setting aside their ideological differences, leaders of the TDP, the Communist Party of India (CPI), the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) participated in the sit-in in the state capital.
The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) did not join in the protest as its leaders were in Delhi to press their demand for a separate Telangana state.
No right
The opposition parties argued that the government had no right to auction prime public lands to private companies.
The TDP president and former chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu warned the Congress Government that continued land auctions would have serious consequences.
"If the government goes on auctioning the lands, the poor will have no land to build houses on," he said. Naidu, who was the chief minister from 1995 to 2004, also cautioned those buying the lands.
Warning
"If we come back to power, we will take back all these lands and distribute them among the poor," he said.
The government has earned Rs36.35 billion (Dh3.33 billion) by auctioning the lands in Hyderabad and the surrounding areas during the last four years.
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