‘B.Tech’ Ravi accuses YS family of grabbing lands across Pulivendula constituency

Allegations of land grabbing between TDP and YSRCP leaders in Pulivendula escalate, with accusations and counter-accusations.

The allegations and counter allegations of land grabbing between the TDP and YSRCP took a personal turn with the top leaders of the two parties representing the high-profile Pulivendula constituency heaping allegations against each other.

Kadapa MP Y.S. Avinash Reddy was the first to raise the issue. He had approached the revenue officials on Friday, seeking a probe into the alleged land grabbing by the local TDP leaders.

Accompanied by Pulivendula Municipal Chairman V. Varaprasad, he called on the Revenue Divisional Officer and personally lodged a complaint.

Miffed at the development, the TDP’s constituency in-charge Mareddy Ravindra Reddy (also known as ‘B.Tech’ Ravi) held a press conference here on Saturday, listing various land parcels across the constituency that had been allegedly usurped by the YS family and their close relatives.

Mr. Reddy called the MP’s action as a pre-emptive step, knowing well that the alliance government in the State would soon crack the whip on the encroachments resorted to by his party leaders.

Referring to Mr. Avinash Reddy’s personal assistant B. Raghava Reddy, who is currently absconding as cited by the police officials who visited his residence, the TDP leader accused him as having grabbed the forest land for cultivation in his native Ambakapalli village.

Similarly, he said the relatives of Devireddy Sankar Reddy, an accused in the Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy murder case, of having grabbed 30 acres of precious land.