Communist Party of India (Marxist) Capital Area Coordinator Ch. Babu Rao asked Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu not to move into an “unauthorised construction” on the banks of the Krishna.
Recent reports have indicated that the Chief Minister’s staff are scouting for a residence for him on the banks of the river Krishna, which, however, violate laws on riverfront constructions.
Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, Mr Babu Rao said it would be totally unbecoming of the chief minister to violate the laws of the land.
If the Chief Minister himself does not follow the laws, how can the ordinary man be expected to do so, he asked.
“When notices have been served on poor people living on the flood banks of the river in Bhavanipuram, how can the Chief Minister move into a house on the opposite bank,’’ he asked.
Mr. Babu Rao said it was not proper to hand over 6,000 acres of land in the river islands to foreign companies for development.
These lands that had been given to Dalit farmers to eke out a living were now being taken away. Farmers had sold lands that came under the provisions of the River Conservancy Act for peanuts because no construction was allowed to them.
Now big businessmen and industrialists that purchased the land were getting permissions to make huge constructions, he said.
