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Chandrababu Naidu
The Emperor of Corruption
Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu has achieved a record of
sorts in corruption. Under his leadership, the state has become the
capital of collusive corruption and is underperforming across the
sectors. In the last twenty four months, the quantum of his corruption
has overtaken the total corruption of his previous nine-year tenure
put together. Kickbacks, bribes, shares, commissionsthe name
could differ, but corruption is open and ubiquitous in the state.
The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Government has unilaterally and
without any obligation under the contract has granted escalations to
the civil contractors with retrospective effect even in Engineering,
Procurement and Construction (EPC) contracts where the Contractor
has undertaken not to claim escalation. While facilitating such
escaltions to the contractors through GO MS No.22, the Chandrababu
government is amassing huge amounts as kickbacks.
Even though the Union Government has an obligation to take over
and completely implement the Polavaram project, the TDP
Government has implemented the ill-advised no storage, temporary
project of Patti Seema at the cost of Rs. 1600 crore just to pocket Rs
500 crore as kick backs by giving the contract. The government gave
the contract at 21.9% excess rate (to the Estimated Project Value) and
in that 16.9% as bonus for completing work in the stipulated time
period of one year. And worse, the bonus clause was not even a part
of the contract when the tenders were called.
Having accomplished that, the TDP Government is now trying to
take over Polavaram project by substantially escalating the project
cost only for pocketing kickbacks, even when the prices of Petrol,
Diesel, Steel, Aluminium and Sand rates have come down, while
cement rates have not gone up.
Today, in Andhra Pradesh, there is nothing that can be done
without a bribe and there is nothing that cannot be done with a bribe.
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From sand reaches to solar plants, tenders in Irrigation Department to
Power Department, Chandrababu ensured that not a single process is
unaffected by the corrupt government. For instance, his government
has made the illicit sand mining a major source of income by almost
all the TDP functionaries starting from MLAs to Ministers and Chief
Minister running as a syndicate. This is running into thousands of
crores of rupees. Chandrababu has focused on the legal plunder from
the day one and corruption was made a systemic practice. The legal
plunder of government has become an open phenomenon in the
State.
After acquiring the ill-gotten money, Chandrababu Naidu has
brazenly started Operation Akarsh whereby MLAs from our party are
being poached on day to day basis using Carrot and Stick policy. If
they join TDP, they are paid a minimum of Rs 20 to 30 crore, the lure
of ministerial berths to our MLAs who got elected on our party B
Form and symbol. Chandrababu Government has so for poached 12
of our MLAs out of our strength of 67 in total. Such blatant display of
ill-gotten money is not being questioned while the Anti Defection
Law what is part of our constitution is being mocked in broad day
light and yet our democracy remains silent.
The TDP is conveying a direct message to opposition MLAs- If
you are with us, there is heaven or else you are in hell. So far, as many
as 12 MLAs and one MLC have openly defected to TDP lured by
money and power and what is worse is that the Chief Minister and
his colleagues in cabinet are giving statements that they would
welcome all the MLAs of the opposition with open arms while
assuring them that they would not be disqualified.
When it comes to Amaravati, the State Government, in the name of
developing a world-class capital city, is doing a world-class real estate
scandal worth Rs. 1 lakh crore. Chandrababu breached the oath of
secrecy as he revealed the details of the actual location of the Capital
city to the members of his coterie. This translates to "Insider trading".
To bring down the value of the lands in the prospective Capital
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location Amaravati, the TDP government through its media friends
propagated that the capital city was going to come up in other
locations- Nuzvid or Nagarjuna university areas. Fooled by this
propaganda, people flocked to these areas and the land value in
Amaravati region came down overnight. Seizing the moment,
Chandrababu cronies, his ministers, MLAs, MPs and leaders bought
land in the Amaravati region at throwaway prices duping the local
farmers. And later after his cronies have finished the purchases then
the capital declaration came on December 28, 2014, paramounting
"Insider trading" breaching "Oath of Secrecy". This scandal has been
brought out by "Sakshi" daily with irrefutable proofs.
In the name of land pooling, the government grabbed the fertile,
irrigated, multi-crop lands of the farmers, while sparing lands
belonging to his cronies. In return, the farmers were supposed to get
paltry extent of residential and commercial plots in their own villages.
Now, there is no clue as to when and where these plots would be
given. Indeed, he did not take some lands as they belonged to his
men and their benamis. The Chief Minister, however, did not spare
those lands without a reason. The CM recieved quid pro quo benefits
for his generosity.
Chief Minister did not stop with this, he has "zoned" the entire two
districts to create demand for his cronies and to favour his cronies.
Lands belonging to his cronies were marked in real estate zones while
others were in "Agri Zone-1"
There is no end to such stories of open corruption by Chandrababu
Naidu. Though experts are of the opinion that 5000-acre land is
enough to build the new Capital, Chandrababu insists on gathering
34,000 acres for the city. He is taking the land from the farmers and
handing them over to private players on settlement basis.
Several proofs and GOs which demonstrate his corruption have
appeared in mainstream media. They are being mentioned in our
discussions in Assembly. However, the government is not ready to
face any investigation. The Chief Minster made it clear that his
government was not going to commission any probe whatsoever!
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Index
Recent Scams List 8
Capital Robbery 9
Corruption in Irrigation Department 12
EPC out, Additional Payments in!! 14
Polavaram Project Costs Skyrocketed! 15
Patti Seema Project Exclusively for Kickbacks 16
Benami bags Huge Contracts 17
Additional Liquor!! 18
Galeru-Nagari Project Escalated! 19
Mining Barytes Commissions 20
Imported Coal lasts long! 21
Solar Golmaal!! 22
These 10 companies deserve additional incentives! 23
Pushkaram Funds have gone Godavari Way! 24
Mantri has Every Right to Cheat!! 24
Exploitation of Sand Mafia 25
Thermal Projects of Favoritism 26
Huge Scam in Electricity Department 27
Balakrishna's Relative Is Always a Worthy Man! 30
One hand proposes, another hand approves 31
4 Departments for Party Cadre 32
Water, Tree and Evergreen Favouritism 33
Central Funds Misappropriated 35
A Friend in Deed 36
Gift to Galla Family 37
Special Development Fund No More! 38
Additional to Nellore Barrage 39
Boon to Vamsadhara Contractors 40
Chandrannas Gift 40
Lokesh Deal with Millers 41
Kuppam Branch Canal Works only for Stooges 41
Day-light Robbery in Goddumarri 41
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Babus Extravagance Costs the State 42
Scams between 1995-2004 45
Scams list - 1995 to 2004 46
Details of Land Gifting 47
Corruption in the Sale of PSUs 48
Democracy in Danger 50
A World Class Scam or A World Class City? 56
The Daylight Robbery 58
The Devil in Detail 60
Capital Culprits 64
A World Class Scam 69
The Captured Capital 74
Nara Lokesh and his Benami Inc. 75
Sujana Chowdarys Land Robbing 77
Murali Mohan - The Real Benami 78
Ravela Traitor of Dalits 80
Rs. 295 Crore Dowry to Balakrishnas Relative 81
Assigned Lands in Prathipatis Account 82
Quid pro quo with Lingamaneni 83
One Bit, One Benami 87
Narayana.. Narayana 88
Rama... Rama Krishna Krishna 92
Payyavula Keshav Descended 93
Dhulipalla's Poramboke Lands 94
Kodelas Son, the Rising Star of the Land! 96
Kommalapati Perfectly Illegal! 98
Open Fraud and Deception the Farmers Response 100
Lingamaneni Ramesh - A King of Encroachments 103
A Ravan in Every Lanka 107
Dhulipalla did not Stop 113
Share of Anjaneyulu is 4.69 acres! 114
Assigned Lands Alienated 115
Red Zone in the Name of Green Zone 121
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Recent Scams of Chandrababu
(In Rs. in Crores)
Corruption in the name of Capital City 1,00,000
Corruption in the Irrigation Department 6,000
Gifts from Liquor Syndicate 5,100
Kickbacks in Power Projects 4000
Kickbacks from Sand Mafia 3,375
Polavaram Project Cost Escalation 3000
Incentives to Industrialists 2500
Water & Tree Scheme Distribution 1800
Benefit from abandoning EPC Method 1500
Fiber Optic grid contract to a benami 1400
Gains from Wadawadalaa Chandranna Scheme 900
Wastage of Funds for Godavari Pushkarams 750
Bribes in Patti Seema Lift Irrigation Project 700
Corruption in AP GENCO Thermal Projects 670
Nomination works in Irrigation Department 500
Land at throwaway price to a Friend of Nara Lokesh 338
Gift to Balakrishna's Son-in-law 245
Benefit to Contractors in Vamsadhara Project 214
Kickbacks in Coal Imports 200
Lokesh Deal with Millers 200
Gains from Solar Tenders 155
Additional Payments in Galeru-Nagari and Avuku Projects 153
Kuppam Branch Canal Works to TDP district president 120
Lands to NTR Trusts (in 2 districts) 100
Gains from Support to a Minister who masterminded the Cotton Scam 100
Kickbacks from Bitrates Mines Allocation 100
Money made from Chandranna Gift Scheme 100
Land gifted to Galla Family 40
Open Cheating in Goddumarri 25
Additional Cost of Nellore Barrage 10
Total: 1,34,295
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Rs. 1,00,000 Crore
Capital Robbery
CM Chandrababu leaked vital information regarding the
Capital city location to his benamis and party men
Nara Lokesh, his confidants and TDP leaders
benefitted to the tune of Rs. 1,00,000 crore
The government is doing real estate business
with the lands of farmers
Under the guise of building a world-class capital city, the Andhra
Pradesh Chief Minister is running a real estate business. He leaked the
actual location of the Capital city to his coeteire and helped them
accumulate at least Rs. 1 lakh crore at the cost of fortunes of other
ordinary people. From his swearing till the date of announcement (28th
December 2014) the new capital lands were procured by his cronies.
Even before an official statement was made about the location of the
capital city, the CMs stooges and their benamis bought large extents of
land in this region. However, most of those sale transactions were not
registered officially. Initially, they took the possession of lands with the
help of General Power of Attorney (GPA) documents. The ruling party
realtors got GPAs for thousands of acres as they came to know the
about the Capital city's location. The GPAs helped them to buy more
land with less money, while some were registered by on the
announcement while others were registered after the announcement
with the help of GPAs in their favour.
Showing very clearly how his cronies lands were not taken into "land
pooling" exempting these lands while other farmers lands were taken
either by hook or crook. Land pooling only gave paltry extents of plots
to the owners. For instance, in the case of Lingamaneni Estate and
Ramakrishna Constructions, the Chief Minister first sent a police official
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to threaten them. They were told that since their projects also included
assigned lands they breached the laws. Hence, their projects would be
confiscated and used for land pooling. While Lingamaneni Group
bought 804.32 acres, Ramakrishna Constructions bought 179.51 acres.
The owners of both these projects compromised with the CM. CM
protected them from land pooling. The CM also benefitted the ruling
party MLA Kommalapati Sridhar by exempting his 43-acre real estate
venture from land pooling for reason best known to him alone.
Chandrababu bragged that his land pooling scheme is a voluntary
process. He announced that the new Capital city will be built on 29 villages
located in Thullur, Tadepalle and Mangalagiri mandals. It was decided that
a total of 53,743.49 acres needs to be pooled for the capital city. Out of this,
15,010.03 acres is assigned and government land and remaining 38,737.46
acres was to be collected from the farmers. To this effect, the AP
government issued a GO on January 1, 2015.
His cronies have also propagated that the Government would take the
assigned and lanka (riverbed) lands without paying any compensation
from the present owners. These lands were allocated, long back, to the
people belonging to SC, ST and BC communities. The government
officials informed the public that the government could take back the
lands without any compensation as they were distributed without a
cost. Scared by the propaganda, the owners of 1,843 acres of assigned
land and 1,514 acres of lanka (riverbed) land sold their lands to TDP
leaders at cheaper rates. Once these transactions were concluded, the
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TDP government came up with a generous package for these lands in
February 2016, fourteen months after the first announcement.
According to the international
standards, it costs Rs. 30 lakh for
residential development an acre of
land. About 3000 sq. yard can be
developed on each acre. However,
the government is providing per
acre 1000-yard residential plot and
450-yard commercial plot as
compensation to the farmers. The
government is developing roads,
parks, buildings. His cronies have
come under real estate zone
facilitating their real estate
activities while other farmers lands
have been pushed to "Agri zone-1"
to create demand for his cronies' The draft policy guidelines of the
CRDA that classified the Capital city
lands. While APZ-1 has a heavy lands into different zones.
agricultural tilt, the APZ-2 and 3
are going to host Future Urbanised Developable Area, which will be
developed by the government once it has completed the development
of the Capital city limit. TDP leaders and their benamis have bought
about 10,000 acres of land in APZ -2 and 3.
Agriculture Zone - 1
Agriculture Zone - 2
Agriculture Zone - 3
Present
Urban
Area
Proposed
Urban
Area
Proposed
Industrial
Area
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Rs. 6,000 Crore
Opposition of Two Chief Secretaries could Not Stop
Corruption in Irrigation Department
A scam took place in the The money that
name of cost escalation, has been offered
which is worth about as the return gift
Rs. 6000 crore Rs. 3000 crore
Some parts of the GOs 153, 154 and 156 which have
finalised the additional payments
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tenders without obtaining any administrative permissions for the same.
While tenders have been called for 25 packages, in a strange coincidence,
all the tenders were won by C.M. Ramesh and a few other leaders of the
ruling party.
Thus, a plan was hatched for the open robbery of Rs. 6,000 crore. In all
packages, mobilization advances were issued, about 50 % bills were also
paid before taking any administrative permissions. As the Finance
Department started raising its objections about this illegal process, the
heads of the government used force and silenced the officials, who were
concerned about the issue. Indeed, the making the payment of advances
and bills without administrative permissions is against the law and
attracts audit objections.
Highlighting these intentional lapses, Sakshi daily published
extensive, well-researched stories about the ongoing scam. To make the
Rs. 6,000 crore illegal affair legal, the state government has come out with
new cost escalation proposals. However, given that the escalation was a
sham, both the erstwhile Chief Secretary I.Y.R. Krishna Rao and the
present Chief Secretary S.P. Tucker refused to sign on these escalation
proposals.
To counter the opposition of the Chief Secretaries, CM Chandrababu
Naidu and his son Nara Lokesh brought the cabinet approval to the fore.
To the horror and shock of bureaucrats, the highly corrupt cabinet
approved the thoughtless cost escalation proposals. Despite the
approval of the cabinet, the Chief Secretaries refused to sign on these
proposals. Due to their opposition, the proposals have gone back to the
cabinet thrice.
A proposal going back to cabinet thrice due to opposition from
bureaucrats could be first of its kind incident in Independent Indias
history. Not just one, but two Chief Secretaries refusing to give nod to the
government proposals indicates the dangerous levels of corruption in
Andhra Pradesh. According to officials of the Irrigation Department Rs.
6,000 crore scam has taken place under the governments watch and half
of the amount i.e. Rs. 3,000 has already changed hands.
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Rs. 1,500 Crore
EPC out, Additional Payments in!!
The additional payment The money that was
made to the contractors paid a bribes
Rs. 3,000 crore Rs. 1,500 crore
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Rs. 3000 crore
Polavaram Project Costs Skyrocketed!
The cost for Polavaram project The money that has changed
after cost escalation hands in this transaction is
Rs. 31,000 crore Rs. 3,000 crore
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Rs. 700 crore
Patti Seema Project Exclusively for Kickbacks
After the escalation, The kickbacks that have been The total amount
the cost of Patti Seema offered to the government
project has gone up to
of kickbacks is
heads so far are
Rs. 1,600 crore Rs. 450 crore Rs. 700 crore
The memo which enabled the contractors to quote 5 % additional amount. The memo said 5 %
additional amount shall be paid to the contractors if they complete the works before the deadline.
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Rs. 1400 crore
Benami bags Huge Contracts
The value of projects that were The 50% of kickbacks
awarded to Harikrishna Prasad- in the transaction is
a confidant of Nara Lokesh is
Rs. 2,800 crore Rs. 1,400 crore
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Rs. 5,100 crore
Additional Liquor!!
The kickbacks from The bribe that was paid by The bribe that was paid
the liquor syndicate the Liquor Syndicate for
for new distilleries
in last 20 months Karnataka-style liquor policy
Rs. 4,000 crore. Rs. 1,000 crore Rs. 100 crore
The Andhra Pradesh government stated in 2015 that it was going to come
up a new liquor policy on the lines of the policies of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
The thing is in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, the governments run the liquor shops
and there is no place for private individuals in the liquor business. This
statement was indeed an indirect warning to the liquor syndicate of the state
and it was aimed at making them surrender to the government.
As government expected, the liquor syndicate has come for comprise and
allegedly offered a bribe of Rs. 1000 crore to the heads of the government.
Thanks to this understanding, the state government has changed its mind
and finally come up with Karnataka-style liquor policy, where there would be
no active role for the government in the policies liquor business. Had the AP
government come up with Tamil Nadu style policy; the liquor syndicate
would have gone out its business.
There are also allegations that the syndicate members are already paying
Rs. 200 crore every month to sell their liquor products above the Maximum
Retail Price (MRP). That means the bigwigs of the government raked up Rs.
4,000 crore in last 20 months. Besides these earnings, the state government
has invited applications for new distilleries. It has received 12 applications
and gave four permissions. It is learned that these four companies have
already paid Rs. 400 crore to heads of the government. In all, liquor has been
a quite lucrative business for the heads of the government.
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Rs. 153 crore
Galeru-Nagari Project Escalated!
The additional amount paid to TDP MP C M Ramesh in
two packages of Galeru-Nagari Project is Rs. 153 crore.
In Galeru-Nagari
Sujala Sravanti (GNSS),
the AP government has
increased the project
costs unprecedentedly.
For instance, the leftover
work worth Rs. 10 crore in
the 29th package mere
was removed from the
contractors scope
without any penalties and
the same was retendered.
The cost was increased
to Rs. 115 crore and The memo issued by the Chief Engineer seeking a report on
awarded to Ritvik Projects Avuku tunnel works as there were corruption allegations.
of C.M. Ramesh, an MP of
the ruling party, without even taking administrative permissions. Ironically,
two consecutive Chief Secretaries of the state have objected this
unprecedented escalation of project cost. Despite their opposition, the state
government discussed the proposal in the cabinet and approved. The
Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) model of the Irrigation
Department never allows for project cost escalation.
After making the payment of Rs. 35 crore bill, a dispute arose between
C.M. Ramesh and the Irrigation Minister as to the percentages of the
commissions. Due to this dispute, the truth about the absence of
administrative permissions came out. As a result, further payments were
stopped to the company of C.M. Ramesh. The outraged MP-cum-contractor
exposed the corruption in the Avuku tunnel works (Package No: 30), which is
a part of GNSS project. He wrote a letter to the government stating that the
Irrigation Department officials were making the additional payment of Rs. 44
crore to the contractor, which was against the provisions. In these two
instances, the taxpayers money paid to the contractors were - Rs. 99 crore
and Rs. 44 crore; a total of Rs. 153 crore.
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Rs. 100 crore
Mining Barytes Commissions
The benefit that was given to The money that changed
private companies in barytes hands in this transaction
mineral sale transactions
Rs. 178 crore Rs. 100 crore
At least Rs. 178 crore worth collusive corruption took place in the sale
transactions of barytes mineral. The state government which initially said
that it was inviting global tenders actually colluded with private
companies and awarded the tender to it through Andhra Pradesh
Minerals Development Corporation (APMDC). The tender norms were
tailor-made and only three companies were made eligible for the process.
These three companies that participated in the tender process were
coordinated by the ruling party bigwigs and became a cartel. These
companies were awarded the Mangampet mines in YSR Kadapa district to
these companies. The government has brought down the basic price of
barytes and benefitted these companies to the tune of Rs. 178 crore. The
government issued GO No: 163 in 2015 to facilitate this private gain.
In a bizarre twist, Chandrababu Naidu cancelled the previous tender
that was awarded to Chennai-based Trivnei Earth Movers Private Ltd. and
once again awarded the tender to the same company at more escalated
price. Due this understanding the government is going to pay Rs. 531
crore additional amount to this company. It is estimated that a few
hundreds of crores of rupees would be given as kickbacks to the heads of
the government.
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Rs. 200 crore
Imported Coal lasts long!
The value of a possible scandal in the The money that changed hands in this
coal purchases is Rs. 500 crore transaction is Rs. 200 crore.
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Rs. 155 crore Solar Golmaal!!
The prospective loss that will have The money that changed
to be borne by AP Genco, as it had
hands in this transaction is
to allow the highest bidding, is
Rs. 755 crore. Rs. 155 crore
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Rs. 2,500 crore
These 10 companies deserve additional incentives!
The total value of additional The kickbacks to the
incentives that were heads of the government
extended to 10 companies
Rs. 5000 crore Rs. 2,500 crore
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Pushkaram Funds
Have gone Godavari Way!
The total funds allocated for The amount that recycled in
Godavari Pushkarams is the form of kickbacks is
Rs. 1,500 crore Rs. 750 crore
The Andhra Pradesh government has allocated Rs. 1,500 crore for the
works of Godavari Pushkarams. However, half of that amount Rs. 750
crore was pocketed by the ruling party leaders and government officials.
Out of the total amount of Rs. 1,500 crore, the Road and Buildings
Department was allocated Rs. 782 crore, the remaining funds were
obligated to other departments. During the execution of these works, all
the rules and regulations were set aside. The works that were below Rs. 10
lakh were given to the ruling party men on nomination basis. The R&B
Department issued an order to this effect.
BJP MLC Somu Verraju complained to the Vigilance Department that
out of Rs. 782 crore, Rs. 400 crore was snatched away due to the
ubiquitous corruption in the works. A probe is going on into this
corruption.
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Rs. 3,375 crore
Exploitation of Sand Mafia
The actual income
that was supposed
to be earned by the
state government by
February 2016
through sand mining
The GO. No. 94 which presented the new sand policy
Rs. 5,496 crore
The actual income
earned
Rs. 964 crore
The money that
was swallowed
Rs. 4,500 crore
The 75% of the
amount went to the
Chief Minister
Chandrababu
Naidu and his son
Nara Lokesh i.e. The clipping which shows the state Finance Minister Yanamala
Ramakrishnudu, who was confessing that an open robbery of
Rs. 3,375 crore Rs. 2000 crore took place in the name of the sand mining
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Rs. 670 crore
Thermal Projects of Favoritism
The additional payments made by The kickbacks
AP Genco in the two thermal projects
Rs. 2680 crore Rs. 670 crore.
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Rs. 4000 crore
Huge Scam in
Electricity Department
The differences in power The money
purchases from that paid
private companies is as the bribe is
Rs. 15,000 crore Rs. 4,000 crore
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state government never encouraged AP Genco to increase its power
production and gave priority to private power purchases.
Chandrababu Naidu gave orders to purchase 2000 MW power
right after he took over the office though there was no need. The
Discoms had to take this burden. Between May 2014 and October
2015, a total of 13,180 million units of power was purchased from the
private companies. Its value is not less than Rs. 8,289 crore. Some
portion of this power was bought at a record rate of Rs. 10 per unit
while the Genco could produce the same unit at Rs. 4.50. There has
been a discussion in the Power Department that Nara Lokesh, son of
the CM, took huge kickbacks from the companies that benefited from
these transactions.
The power is available in the open market at the price of Rs. 1.90
per unit (during nights) and Rs. 2.71 per unit (during the day time). This
was made clear by the countrys largest power trading corporation
Indian Energy Exchange (IEX). Despite the availability of power at
lower prices, the power distribution companies (Discoms) of Andhra
Pradesh is buying power at a whooping rate of Rs. 5.11 per unit. The
IEX has reported this questionable practice to the AP Electricity
Regulatory Commission (APERC).
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In 2015-16 too, the maximum price of the power in the open
market was Rs. 3.77 per unit (24 hours). The IEX has questioned why
the AP government could not utilize this opportunity. (The AP Discoms
have placed short-term power purchase orders for more than 16,000
million units of power during this period at higher prices.)
The Discoms have proposed to buy 64,706 million units in 2016-17
financial year. Out of this, the production of AP Genco and the state
share from the central grid account for 39,420 million units. The
Discoms are going to buy remaining 25,286 million units from the
private power companies.
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Rs. 245 crore
Balakrishna's relative is always a worthy man!
The land that is worth of Rs. 250
They benefitted by
crore was gifted to a relative of
the Chief Minister for only Rs. 245 crore
Rs. 4.99 crore and above
The GO that allocated 498.93 acres of land to VBC Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd. near
Jaggayyapet, Krishna district. While an acre of land costs Rs. 50 lakh here, it was
allocated for only Rs. 1 lakh
The TDP government gifted the land- which is actually worth Rs. 250
crore for only Rs. 4.99 crore to M.S.P. Rama Rao, a relative of TDP MLA and
actor Balakrishna. The land that was located in Jayanthipuram near
Jaggayyapeta to VBC Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd., which belongs to Mr.
Rao, who is son of former TDP MP M.V.V.S. Murthy, a close confidant of
Chandrababu Naidu.
This land was previously earmarked for an industrial park by AP
Industrial Infrastructure Corporation. A GO (No: 523) was also issued by
the previous government to this effect on September 28 of 2013.
Amending this GO, Chandrababu government issued another GO (No:
269) on July 15, 2015 and allocated the land to VBC Fertilizers and
Chemicals Ltd. for the purpose of establishing a urea manufacturing
plant.
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One hand proposes,
another hand approves
The value of land that was allocated to
NTR Trust in three districts is Rs. 100 crore.
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Rs. 500 crore
4 Departments for Party Cadre
The value of the works 75% of it i.e. Rs. 500 crore
that were allocated on was converted into commission
nomination basis which paid at different levels of
Rs. 695 crore government
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Rs. 1800 crore
Water, Tree and Evergreen Favouritism
The value of the Water and
75 % of it i.e. Rs. 1,800 crore
Tree Scheme works that were
has been appropriated
allocated on nomination basis is
by the leaders of the
Rs. 2,444.90 crore. government and ruling party.
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and the government officials.
This effectively means the government has abetted corruption worth
of Rs. 1800 crore. The works such as tank desilting, construction of rural
roads, digging works are being taken up under the below-Rs. 10 lakh
category. Most of the times, the ruling party cadre are showing the works
that were already done as new works. Or else they are doing them
partially. As there is no auditing of these works, it was very easy for them
to make money out of these works.
Rules that favour exploitation
The Hyderabad High Court has faulted the awarding of works worth
Rs. 5 lakh and above on nomination basis. However, it did not change a
thing for AP Chief Minster N. Chandrababu Naidu. He rather changed the
rules and started offering works up to Rs. 10 lakh on nomination basis. He
has divided all the works of Water and Tree Scheme into smaller works of
Rs. 10 lakh and distributed them generously among his party men.
The state government issued a memo (No: 1044/CAD-1) on January
27, 2016, ordering the speeding up of the works of Water and Tree
Scheme. On top of it, the Water Resources Department issued another
memo on March 20 directing to pay Rs. 29 for each cubic meter of silt in
desilting works. It ordered to entrust desilting works of the tanks that
have 100 acres and above ayacut to Irrigation Water Committees. On
February 20, the same department issued another memo which stated
that desilting works of tanks that have less than 100 acres ayacut need to
be executed by Janamabhoomi Committees. These memos ensured that
the committees that are dominated by the ruling party members get the
contract works.
The following are the works and their
expenditure under Water and Tree programme:
S.No. Name of Work Number Expenses
(in Rs. in Cr)
1. Tanks desilting 15.55 crore cubic meters 1192.52
2. Check dams and percolation tanks 25,308 188.56
3. Farm ponds 73,777 119.19
4. Other structures of water storage 80,230 711.20
5. Revival of lift irrigation schemes 159 233.43
Total 2444.90
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Rs. 900 crore
Central Funds Misappropriated
The funds released by 75% of it i.e.
the Centre for
village panchayats
Rs. 900 crore
has gone into the
Rs.1,217 crore pockets of TDP men
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Rs. 338 crore
A Friend in Deed
The state government cleared decks to gift a land worth Rs. 363 crore
at just Rs. 25 crore to the company of a friend of Nara Lokesh. The AP
Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC) allocated the land to
Centrical Solutions, the company of Sridhar, a friend of Nara Lokesh. While
the AP Land Management Agency (APLMA), which functions under the
Chief Commissioner of Land Administration proposed that the value of an
acre was Rs. 7.26 crore, the state cabinet set aside the agencys
recommendation and decided the land value was Rs. 50 lakh per acre. The
market value of this land is said to be thrice to the price decided by the
APLMA.
The APLMA recommended APIIC that the 50-acre land has to be
allocated at the price of Rs. 363 crore (Rs. 7.26 crore per acre) through its
resolution on October 16, 2015. However, the cabinet decided to gift
away the 50-acre land to Centrical Solutions at the price of only Rs. 25
crore. To this effect, the Revenue Department issued a GO (No: 428) on
November 11, 2105. Because of this cabinet decision, the state exchequer
lost Rs. 338 crore.
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Rs. 40 crore
Gift to Galla Family
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Special Development Fund
No More!
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The GO that allocated Rs. 2.1 crore funds to
Dhone constituency Telugu Desam Party In-charge K.E. Prataph
Rs. 10 crore
Additional to Nellore Barrage
Irrigation Department regulations were set aside to make additional
payments to the contractor of Nellore Barrage. The orders were issued to
pay an additional amount of Rs. 22.68 crore to the contractor at the
behest of the Chief Minister. The state government did not back off
despite a serious objection from the Finance Department to this decision.
In the additional amount, Rs. 10 crore reached the government heads.
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Rs. 214 crore
Boon to Vamsadhara Contractors
The government wants to increase the costs of remaining works in 86,
87 packages of Vamsadhara Project Second Phase from present Rs. 90
crore to Rs. 429 crore. For this, the government weakened the rule which
makes the consent of the High Power Committee headed by the Chief
Secretary mandatory for all the works that are above Rs. 100 crore. As a
result, according to some bureaucrats, the Chief Minister and the
irrigation minister are going to pocket 50 % of the escalated cost i.e. Rs.
214 crore.
Chandrannas Kanuka
Rs. 100 Crore
The ruling TDP leaders made Rs. 100 crore by supplying sub-standard
provisions to people under the Chandrannas Kanuka scheme during
Sankranti festival of 2016. The government spent Rs. 270 per head and Rs
430 crore in total on this scheme. Though the contractors sourced yellow
lentils at a higher price and supplied inedible jaggery and wheat flour, the
government did not take any action against them!
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Rs. 200 crore
Lokesh Deal with Millers
In March 2015, the AP state cabinet took a decision to waive off VAT
dues to the tune of Rs. 500 crore which the rice millers were supposed to
pay by the date of state bifurcation. Apparently, Nara Lokesh was behind
this deal. He received 200 crore from this decision. The story behind this
decision is as following.
The state government pressurized the millers to pay the VAT dues
through the officials of Commercial Tax Department. At the same time,
Lokesh sent a message to the millers that their dues could be waived off
if they were ready for a deal. The millers responded positively and added
one more demand to their list of wishes i.e. the complete waiver of VAT on
future rice exports. At the behest Lokesh, the government agreed to their
demand and the transaction has been closed successfully.
Rs. 25 crore
Daylight Robbery in Goddumarri
The TDP government, went against the regulations and had given the
Goddumarri barrage contract to its party MP C.M. Ramesh. Though the
officials were not in favour of this award, they could not withstand the
pressure of the MP and gave him the contract worth Rs. 88 crore.
According to Irrigation Department sources, the MP is set to benefit to the
tune of at least Rs. 25 crore.
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Babus Extravagance Costs the State
Rs. 736 crore
Chandrababu Naidu is a byword for extravagance. He started
spending the tax payers money from the day one of his coming into
power. He started it by using charter planes for his oath-taking ceremony
and since then he never stopped his mindless spending spree.
Chandrababu always talks about the financial hardships that the new
state is facing, however, on the other hand he spends money like water.
He has been spending crores of rupees on renovating the CM offices in
Hyderabad, Vijayawada and residential buildings in both the cities. He has
a luxury bus and a convoy of brand new cars, which even the countrys
Prime Minister doesnt have. It seems Chandrababu thinks unmindful
spending of government money is his birthright and his extravagance
knows no limit. Irrespective of the need, he has been appointing
consultants for various tasks and paying them heftily. He also spent
hundreds of crores on multiple groundbreaking ceremonies.
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The GO that allocated the Rs. 10.20 crore for
renovation of the CMs Camp Office in Vijayawada
Ever since Chandrababu Naidu became the Chief Minister, he spent Rs.
736 crore on various expenses. He has created a record sorts in
travelling on special charter planes. Probably, there is no other Chief
Minister in the country who had made such through use of charter
planes. Whether the destination is Delhi, Hyderabad or a district
headquarter, Chandrababu travels only in special planes! Until
February 2016, the Finance Department had paid Rs. 15 crore for
plane charge dues and another Rs. 15 crore is due.
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The Chief Minster spent Rs. 10 crore on Lake View Guest House, Rs.
5.87 crore on Madinaaguda Farmhouse and rented houses in Jubilee
Hills.
In another record of sorts, Chandrababu conducted the
groundbreaking ceremony of Amaravati city thrice. For the temporary
arrangements of these festivities, he spent another Rs. 100 crore!
So far Andhra Pradesh government has paid Rs. 120 crore as travel
allowance and dearness allowance to the officials who have been
commuting between Hyderabad and Vijayawada.
The government spent Rs. 150 crore only on preparing documents for
the new capital. It paid another Rs. 15 crore to Singapur based
consultant for preparing the Master Plan of the city.
A lavish bus with a price tag of Rs. 5.50 crore was purchased for the
tours of CM in the state, which is in addition to the charter planes.
For the preparation of Vision 2029 document, the state government
has entered into an agreement with Ernest and Young at a cost of Rs.
12.62 crore. Strangely, the government has paid mobilisation advance
of Rs. 1.12 crore to the consultancy. The mobilisation advance is
generally paid in civil contracts.
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Scams between 1995-2004
Chandrababu Previous regime
The nine-year rule of Chandrababu Naidu between 1995 and 2004
was an embodiment of corruption. He gifted away lands and contracts to
his confidants, benamis and party men despite widespread criticism. He
branded the public sector units as mad dogs and then killed them. The
assets of these units were sold to his stooges at cheaper prices. He
converted watershed and work guarantee schemes as the major source of
income of his party cadre. During his tenure as an ad hoc Chief Minister
before the 2004 Assembly elections, he allocated 800 acres of land of the
University of Hyderabad to a company called IMG Bharat. This allocation
was later cancelled by Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddys government.
After Chandrababu decided to build the Hitec City at Madhapur, he
tipped off Murali Mohan, now TDP MP from Rajahamundry, about its
location. Murali Mohan bought all the lands he could around that area
and developed several real estate ventures. Chandrababu used same the
model in case of Amaravati and is making several times more money.
In liquor purchases too, he bent rules for three companies. According
to a report of Vigilance Department, the state lost Rs. 600 crore between
1995 and 2004 because of the policies of Chandrababu Naidu. There was
not even a single project that was awarded without taking commissions
during his first spell.
From the day one, Chandrababu has been gifting away the lands to his
friends, confidants, party men, benamis and stooges. Despite the resistance
from opposition parties, he allocated golf course land in Manikonda and 534
acres land to EMR Properties. Though there was no need, he gave away
17,434 acres of land to industrialists during his tenure and its value is about
Rs. 1.60 lakh crore.
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Scams list - 1995 to 2004
Scam Worth in Rs. (in Crores)
Counterfeit Stamps Scam 5000
Deposits in Urban Banks that were closed 2000
Watershed Scheme Scandal 2000
Gains from Water and You Scheme 1600
Liquor policy favouritism 600
Food for Work Scheme Scandal 560
Sale of lands of public sector units 400
Land allocated for tourism projects 350
Somasila lands scam 112
Eleru scam 100
Scholarships scam 100
Land allocation to cement factory in Vijayawada55
Land allocation to Rahejas in Madhapur 50
Timers scam 30
Chief Ministers Relief Fund 10
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Details of Land Gifting
Company Land Worth in Rs.
(in acres) (in Crores)
Shamshabad Airport 5500 79860
IMG Bharath 850 16456
EMR Properties 535 10367
Beachsand Trimex 1700 10000
Vizag Pharma City 2143 10372
Krishnapatnam Port 2000 9680
Gangavaram Port 1800 8712
Raheja Group 109 280
Agakhan Foundation 100 1936
Kakinada Port 354 1713
Hitec City (All Phases) 80 1548
IVRCL 50 968
Microsoft 42 813
Wipro 30 580
Computer Associates 30 580
Malaysia Township 35 508
Maheswaram Hardware Park 18 348
Madhapur IT Park 9 174
Singapore Township 80 193
Dabur 1000 100
Orient Cements 820 8
Total 1735,434 1,59,900
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Corruption in the Sale of PSUs
Company Market Value Sold Value Rs.
(in Crores)
Allwyn Sanathnagar unit 150 3
Republic Forge Company 30 16
Nizam Sugars 120 55
Madhuranagar Sugar Ltd. 40 22.50
Lachhayyapet Sugar Mill 40 21.45
Montojapally Distillery 18 10
Chagallu Distillery 20 9
Co-operative Mills
Hanuman Junction Sugars 30 11.4
Nandyal Sugars 20 6.01
Palakollu Sugars 10 3.3
Gurajala Sugars 14 5.27
Hindupur Sugars 20 8
Inkollu Cotton Mill 30 4.59
Adilabad Cotton Mill 12 8
Nellore Cotton Mill 32 12.23
Edlapadu Cotton Mill 50 7.50
Total 636 203.35
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Democracy in Danger!
The Telugu Desham Party in Andhra Pradesh has
brazenly started Operation Akrash whereby MLAs from
our party are being poached on day to day basis using
Carrot and Stick policy. If they join TDP, they are paid a
minimum of Rs 20 to 30 crore, the lure of ministerial
berths to our MLAs who got elected on our party B Form
and symbol. Chandra Babu Government has so for
poached 12 of our MLAs out of our strength of 67 in total.
Such blatant display of ill-gotten money is not being
questioned while the Anti Defection Law what is part of
our constitution is being mocked in broad day light and yet
our democracy remains silent.
Making mockery of democracy once again as never
done in the past, the MLAs who were given constituency
development fund are denied these constituency
development funds and by suspending the Constituency
Development Fund usually operated by MLAs, the Chief
YSRCP MLAs Bhooma Nagi Reddy, Bhooma Akhila Priya, Jaleel Khan, Adinarayana
Reddy and MLC Narayana Reddy Joining TDP Party in Presence of Chandrababu
Naidu at CM Camp Office in Vijayawada on February 22, 2016.
50 Emperor of Corruption
Minister has been granting official works in various
Assembly Constituencies by creating Special Development
Fund either to TDP MLAs, where they are there or in the
name of defeated candidates of TDP in the constituencies
which are represented by YSRCP. The Government is
directly issuing GOs on their names showing them as
constituency in-charge while denying constituency
development funds to YSRCP MLAs.
The TDP is conveying a direct message If you are with
us, there is heaven or else you are in hell. So far, as many as
12 MLAs and one MLC have openly defected to TDP lured
by money and power and what
is worse is that the Chief
Minister and his colleagues in
cabinet are giving statements
that they would welcome all
the MLAs of the opposition with
open arms while assuring them
that they would not be
disqualified.
Chandrababu is known for
his direct role in the Cash for
YSRCP Badvel MLA Thiriveddi Jayaramulu
Vote case. In the recently
Joining in TDP in Presence of CM Chandrababu concluded election to the
Naidu in Vijayawada on February 29, 2016 .
Telangana Legislative Council,
with an intention to get is nominee elected though the TDP
didnt have required majority, N Chandrababu Naidu had
stoop down to such a heinous level which is unbecoming of
a political leader let alone a Chief Minister. Embolden by the
abundant ill-gotten money amassed through corruption, he
tried to purchase a TRS MLA by offering lots of money
through one of his trusted lieutenants Mr. Revanth Reddy. In
this process he was caught red-handed in audio and video
tapes. To come out of this Cash for Vote case he had
compromised with the Telangana Chief Minister by
mortgaging the interest of Andhra Pradesh thus causing
Emperor of Corruption 51
irreparable damage.
When we try to raise these issues in the Assembly, our
Members are suspended and threatened in complete
violation of Business Rules. The Honble Minister for
Legislative Affairs says that Business Rules have no value
and citing the provisions of Art 212 of the Constitution, he
says that no court can call into question any act in the
assembly if it is in gross violation of rules and constitutional
principles of natural justice.
In the just concluded Budget session, when we gave
notice for the No Confidence motion against the Council of
Ministers, the item was taken up
just then giving the
opportunity to the defectors
to say that they had no time to
follow the whip.
Similarly, when we gave
notice for Removal of Speaker
71(1) of The Procedure and
Conduct of Business in the A P
Legislative Assembly read with
Article 179 (C) of the
YSRCP MLA from Yerragondapalem Palaparti David Constitution of India, the
Raju Joining in TDP in Presence Of CM Chandrababu Speaker took up the matter for
Naidu in Vijayawada in February 28, 2016.
discussion on the same day of
notice by suspending the Rules. While Article 179 (C) of
the Constitution clearly specifies that no discussion on
removal of Speaker can take place without lapsing 14 clear
days. The Assembly Business Rules are subordinate to the
Constitution, despite which it was flouted with impunity,
just to protect the defectors from the whip.
Yet another instance is the division on the
Appropriation Bill 2016. Our Party gave advance intimation
to the Speaker that we are opposing the Appropriation Bill
and that we demand division, despite which, just as in the
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case of Uttarakhand, the Bill was declared passed with
voice vote and without division inspite of our protest and
asking. We wonder whether there is any rule of law in the
State?
The Parliament enacted anti defection law by way of
52nd Constitutional amendment in 1985, which added the
Tenth Schedule to the Constitution with the main intent to
curb the evil of political defections motivated by lure of
office or other similar considerations which endanger the
foundations of our democracy. Not satisfied with the
functioning of the Tenth Schedule, the Parliament amended
the law by way of 91st
Constitutional Amendment in
2003 removing the exemption
available to bulk defections
constituting one third
legislators of a political party.
Now, even if 100% of Members
of a Legislative Party defect to
another political party, all such
members have to be
disqualified, unless the original
YSRCP Jaggampet MLA Jyotula Nehru Joining TDP political parties decide to
in Presence of AP CM Chandrababu Naidu in merge.
Vijayawada on April 4, 2016.
Despite such a tough law,
the anti-defection law is being flouted with impunity day in
and day out by our state assembly. As many as 12 out of the
15 elected MLAs belonging to TDP have crossed over to
ruling TRS at different periods of time in the present house.
One of them was even made a Minister in Telangana. No
action has been taken by the Telangana assembly in
pursuance of the provisions of Tenth Schedule so far. All of a
sudden, the Speaker Sri S. Madhusudana Chary on 10th
March 2016 merged the 12 Telugu Desam MLAs who have
defected to the TRS in TRS as they constituted more than
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two-thirds of TDP Legislative strength in the Assembly and,
according to him, this did not invite anti-defection
provisions. This is a strange ruling!
While TDP supremeo shouted a hundred times from
roof tops about the blatant violation and inaction on the
part of the Speaker of Telangana Assembly in recent
events, he himself has started the same unethical and
unconstitutional act of encouraging defections from YSRCP
to TDP by admitting with a great fanfare 4 YSRCP MLAs and
one MLC on 22nd Feb 2016. The figure has gone up to 12
MLAs now. The ruling TDP is openly talking about
masterminding some more
defections with ill-gotten
wealth and lure for ministerial
berths, without any sense of
remorse. What will happen
next is, we will again petition
the Speaker; who will not act.
What can we do and of what
avail is this law?
There should be a national
debate on this unethical and
YSRCP MLA Sujaya Krishna Ranga Rao of Bobbili in unconstitutional behavior of
Vizianagaram district being inducted into TDP by the political parties. You may kindly
AP CM Chandrababu Naidu on April 20, 2016.
consider issuing an Ordinance
to remove this from Speakers scope and giving it to the
Election Commissions scope with a specific time limit of
three months for the disposal of all anti-defection cases
from the date of complaint, failing which we will have a
right without a remedy when such right is infringedwhich
is as good as not having a right at all. Alongside this, the
mindless corruption which is the root of the present
defections in AP should also be probed thoroughly.
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Amaravati
A World Class City or A World Class Scam?
Amaravati-the new Capital city of Andhra Pradesh- is supposed to
be a global city of 21st century. However, today it has become a
synonym to a scandal of global standards thanks to the Chief Minister
of the state, N. Chandrababu Naidu. In the name of developing a
world-class Capital city, a world-class real estate scandal worth Rs. 1
lakh crore took place. Chandrababu breached the oath of secrecy as
he revealed the details of the location of the capital city to the
members of his coterie. This translates to "Insider trading".
After revealing the location of the Capital, the TDP government
has made concerted efforts to bring down the value of the lands in
Amaravati region. The government with the help of its media friends
propagated two areas as the prospective locations of the capital city
viz.- Nuzvid or Nagarjuna University area. Fooled by the propaganda,
people flocked to these areas. As a result, the land value in
Amaravati region came down overnight. Seizing the moment,
Chandrababu cronies, his ministers, MLAs, MPs and leaders bought
land in the Amaravati region at throwaway prices duping the local
farmers. After the cronies of Babu have finished the purchases, the
capital declaration came on December 28, 2014, paramounting
"Insider trading" breaching "Oath of Secrecy".
This scandal has been brought out by "Sakshi" daily with
irrefutable proofs. In the name of land pooling, the government
grabbed the fertile lands on which farmers cultivate three crops a
year, while sparing lands belonging to his cronies. In return, the
farmers were supposed to get paltry extent of residential and
commercial plots in their own villages. Now, there is no clue as to
when and where these plots would be given. Indeed, the CM did not
take some lands as they belonged to his men and their benamis.
However, he did not spare those lands without a reason, he recieved
quid pro quo benefits for his generosity.
Chief Minister did not stop with this, he has "zoned" the entire two
districts to create demand for the lands of his cronies. Lands
belonging to his cronies were marked in real estate zones while
others were in "Agri Zones" There is no end to such stories of open
corruption by Chandrababu Naidu. Though experts are of the opinion
that 5000-acre land is enough to build the new Capital, Chandrababu
insists on gathering 34,000 acres for the city. He is taking the land
from the farmers and handing them over to private players on
settlement basis.
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Important Abbreviations and Concepts
AP: Andhra Pradesh
APZ: Agricultural Protection Zone
GPA: General Power of Attorney
CRDA: Capital Region Development Authority
BJP: Bharatiya Janata Party
IGRS: Information Gathering and Retrieval System
TDP: Telugu Desam Party
YSRCP:Yuvajana Shramika Rythu Congress Party
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The Daylight Robbery
ndhra Pradesh people mandated them to build a
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up the cause of the common people, whose rights to decent
living and fortune have been snatched away.
Sakshi media group has painstakingly collected the
evidence of day-light legal land grabbing by the TDP leaders
and published a series of stories under the title -'The
Captured Capital'. These revelations have stunned the
people of Andhra Pradesh and sent shockwaves through
the state government and the ruling party. With this indepth
series, Sakshi has done what no Telugu media entity could
do so far. It has set a new and unprecedented standard in
Telugu journalism.
These stories have laid bare the government's legal
plunder by presenting absolutely accurate information which
includes the names of the leaders and their benamis, the
number of acres that they bought and the survey numbers
of those lands. For making the original face of the Chief
Minister public, Sakshi daily has been targeted by the
government. It slapped several cases against the Sakshi
reporters and desk journalists and harassing them.
The daylight robbery that is taking place in the name of
developing a world class city must be opposed and stopped
before it destroys lives of many more farmers. For sure,
Sakshi expose has made government's intent of plundering
and cheating people difficult as the public would become
vigilant and oppose such fraudulent mechanisms in future.
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The Devil in Detail
Amaravati- the new Capital city of Andhra Pradesh state - is supposed
to be a global city of 21st century. However, today it has become a
synonym to a scandal of global standards thanks to the Chief Minister
of the state N. Chandrababu Naidu. The multilayered scam began as
heads of the government began to 'leak' information to media about
the proposed location of the new Capital. This was nothing but a
misinformation campaign aimed at misguiding the people.
Phase -I
AP Chief Minister and his cabinet had already made up their mind
to establish the Capital city in Thullur area, which is located in
between Guntur and Vijayawada. Once they decided on the location,
they diverted the attention of the people and realtors from Thullur
area by giving 'media leaks', which projected that other regions
including those surrounding Acharya Nagarjuna University and
Nuzvid mandal were being considered as the prospective locations
for the capital city.
Their plan did the trick. While most of the people made a beeline
to those areas to purchase plots, the Chief Minister and his men
bought thousands of acres of land in Thullur area through their
benamis at throwaway prices. Once the State government revealed
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its original intention, several farmers and realtors who bought lands
at Nuzvid area incurred heavy losses. On the other hand, the farmers
of Amaravati area also incurred losses as they had to part with their
lands for much cheaper prices. Chandrababu and his men, who were
privy to this information, made at least a lakh crore rupees through
the real estate transactions.
Phase - II
After making a high decibel propaganda about the about-to-come-
up world-class Capital city Amaravati, the state government has
brought forth a scandalous concept called 'Land Pooling'. The
government has decided to pool 38,737 acres of fertile, multi-crop
land from 29 villages of the Capital city region. When the farmers
protested the land pooling, the government took the help of its
'friendly' media outlets to dilute public dissent. These media outlets,
which have an extensive reach in AP, created an apocalyptic
atmosphere in the state. They stated that the farmers those who
refuse to part with their lands would be the ultimate losers and scared
the farmers to give away the land.
Thus, the gullible farmers were coerced into the land pooling.
Though the name 'land pooling' suggests that the entire exercise is
voluntary, the actual process was anything but voluntary. While the
government openly used force to collect the lands from several
unwilling farmers, on the other hand, the lands of the CM and his
stooges were fully protected and exempted from land pooling. For
instance, the capital region border stopped exactly 10 meters away
from the Lingamaneni Estates, which belongs to Lingamaneni
Ramesh, a close aid of Chandrababu Naidu. In return, the Chief
Minister received a guest house and company shares from the
Lingamaneni Group.
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farmers were flattened by bulldozers without any prior information to
them. Though the government had disowned these violent acts,
everybody knew who were behind these incidents.
Phase - III
After the 'land pooling', Chandrababu announced a compensation
package for the farmers in lieu of their lands. He has announced
unspecified cash compensation and residential and commercial plots
for the farmers. These plots were supposed to be given in the
farmers' own villages. However, eventually, this package has turned
out to be a total farce.
Now, the Chief Minister says that the farmers would be given an
annual amount of Rs. 30,000 or Rs. 50,000 for a period of 10 years,
based on their land type. He is now telling the farmers that they
should not expect the residential plots in their villages. In effect, the
farmers are being asked to relocate on the terms of government. The
government now blames the farmers for their 'greedy expectations'!
It is learnt that the plots that are going to be allocated to farmers are
located in lowlands, which will have the lowest commercial value.
The government is also coming up with several restrictions on the
construction activity in the plots allocated to the farmers. The Chief
Minister, who once promised new houses to all the homeless in the
Capital region, however, he hasn't even provided alternative houses
to those who lost their homes in the development process of the
capital city.
Phase - IV
While the government was busy in pooling the land, the ruling
party vultures targeted the Assigned and Lanka (riverbed) lands,
which are mostly owned by Dalits and BCs. To aid its stooges, the
government created a wave of propaganda threatening that these
lands would be taken back by the government without paying any
compensation to the owners. When the poor farmers sought clarity
from the TDP leaders and revenue officials, they further terrified the
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farmers by telling them that the government had every right to take
back the lands since it was the original owner of the lands.
Thanks to this propaganda, several farmers panicked and sold
away their lands to TDP leaders, who have been brainwashing the
farmers to part ways with the lands for some time. The benamis of
ruling party leaders have bought these lands at a rate as low as Rs.
5 lakh per acre. Thus, Chandrababu and his stooges have pocketed
away 1,848 acres of assigned and lanka lands in this fashion.
To fuel the fear of the marginalised farmers, the government used
several tactics. First of all, it refused to issue the compensation
cheques to the tenant farmers of assigned and lanka lands and cited
the various pending litigations as the cause of the delay. Once all the
assigned and lanka lands were secured by the CM and his stooges,
a generous compensation package was announced for these lands.
The package now benefits a lot of TDP leaders, who have bagged
these lands. Those who bought an acre of land at Rs. 5 lakh rate are
now going to get Rs. 1.90 crore for the same parcel of land.
Phase - V
The zone classification of the Capital region is another scam of
global class. The TDP government has divided the lands of capital
city region into commercial and agricultural zones and restircted the
land use of the latter only to agriculture. This means the value of the
lands in agricultural zones is not on par with the value of the lands of
the commercial zones. Because of this classification, the lands prices
have tanked overnight in many areas. The plot of land which was
once valued at Rs. 4 crore is not being bought for even Rs. 40 lakh.
Even the plots of land that are located next to one another also have
strikingly different prices based on the zones that they have fallen
into.
The zone classification information, which was supposed to be
confidential, was leaked to a privileged few, who bought or sold the
lands based on the information. Today, the lands of Chandrababu
and his stooges are in the high-value commercial zones and lands of
other farmers are in the agricultural zones. Because of this
differentiation, the prices of Babus' lands have skyrocketed at the
cost of farmers, whose lands have lost their value overnight. The
government is gambling with the lives of the farmers and making a
killing out of them.
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Capital Culprits
1. P. Narayana
Position: The Minister of Municipal Administration,
Urban Planning and Development
Land Purchased : 3,129 acres (including
assigned lands)
Amount paid : Rs. 432 crore
Present Value : Rs. 10,000 crore and above
Benamis:
Akula Munisankar: He is an electrician in Narayana Medical
College, Nellore, and a distant relative of P. Narayana. He is
related through marriage to the minister and is a brother-in-law to
the minister.
Ravuri Sambasiva Rao: He is the brother-in-law of P. Narayana and
his 'Man Friday'. Sambasiva Rao is the caretaker of all the
financial affairs of the minister.
Potturi Prameela: She is a confidant of Narayana and manages
Narayana group colleges in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
Apart from these important benamis, several employees of
Narayana group and confidants of the minister bought lands and took
part in the scam.
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2. Sujana Chowdary
Position: The Union Minister of State for Science
and Technology and Earth Sciences
Land Purchased : 700 acres
Amount paid : Rs. 35 crore
Present Value : Rs. 700 crore
Benamis:
Yalamanchili Jatin Kumar: Brother of Sujana Chowdary
Sri Kalinga Green Tech Chemicals: This company belongs to
Harshananda, who is a personal assistant to Jatin Kumar.
Yalamanchili Janardhana Rao: Father of Sujana Chowdary
Y. Sivaramakrishna: Brother of Sujana Chowdary
Areas of Land Purchase: Gudimetla of Chandarlapadu mandal,
Keesara, Veerullapadu of Kanchikacherla mandal of Krishna
district and Mangalagiri mandal of Guntur district.
3. Nara Lokesh
Position: National general secretary of Telugu Desam Party
Son of Chandrababu Naidu
Land Purchased : 500 acres
Amount paid : Rs. 50 crore
Present Value : Rs. 650 crore
Benamis:
Vemuri Ravikumar Prasad: A friend of Lokesh
Vemuri Anuradha: Wife of Vemuri Ravikumar
Lands were purchased in the names of Goshpadi Greenfields Pvt.
Ltd., Future Space India Pvt. Ltd. and Net India Pvt. Ltd.
Areas of Land Purchase: Dharanikota and Vaikuntapuram of
Amaravati mandal.
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4. Prathipati Pulla Rao
Position: Minister for Agriculture
Land Purchased : 196 acres (including
assigned lands)
Amount paid : Rs. 39 crore
Present Value : Rs. 784 crore
Benamis:
Gummadi Suresh: A confidant of Pulla Rao
Venigalla Raja Reddy: A confidant of Pulla Rao
Venkayamma: Wife of Venigalla Raja Reddy
Areas of Land Purchase: Venkatapalem, Mandadam,
Uddandarayunipalem and Rayapudi of Thullur mandal.
6. Murali Mohan
Position: Member of Parliament
Land Purchased : 53 acres
Amount paid : Rs. 16 crore
Present Value : Rs. 212 crore
Area of Land Purchase: Kunchanapalli of Tadepalle mandal.
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7. Kommalapati Sridhar
Position: MLA of Pedakurapadu
Land Purchased : 42 acres
Amount paid : Rs. 1. 26 crore
Present Value : Rs. 210 crore
Areas of Land Purchase: Lands adjacent to
Amaravati Township at Yerrabalem village.
These lands were exempted from the land pooling and Nara Lokesh
got the shares in the venture as quid pro quo .
Benami:
Devara Pulliah: A close relative of Dhulipalla Narendra Chowdary
Area of Land Encroachment: Nambur
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10. Payyavula Keshav
Position: Ruling party MLC
Land Purchased : 4.09 acres
Amount paid : Rs. 12.27 lakh
Present Value : Rs. 8 crore
Benami:
Payyavula Vikrama Simha: Son of Payyavula Keshav
GPA was made before the announcement of Capital region and the
registration was done after that.
Area of Land Purchase: Inavolu
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A World Class Scam
A Perfect Drama of an
Opportune Legal Plunder
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area. As a result, the land prices in Amaravati area plummeted.
When realtors were busy buying plots in Nuzvid area, Babu and
his company purchased huge tracts of land at throwaway prices.
Once the true location of the capital city announced, the gullible
realtors who bought the land around Nuzvid area incurred heavy
losses. The farmers who sold their lands in Amaravati area
realised that they were trapped.
By then, Chandrababu, his stooges and their benamis made a
killing and earned above Rs. 1 lakh crore.
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Initially, many framers refused to part ways with the land, their
sole source of livelihood.
To trick the reluctant farmers, Chandrababu used several tactics.
He made benamis of his party leaders voluntarily offer their 5000
acres of land. He then used his media friends to create
propaganda that the farmers who refuse to surrender their lands
would be the ultimate losers. This did the trick. The government
and its media could make the farmers cede their lands.
He also used the caste card to 'pool' the land. He divided the
resisting farmers on caste lines by sending the ministers from
the respective castes to counsel the farmers and finally they
were made to give away their lands.
Though the government said the land pooling was a voluntary
process, it was anything but voluntary. While the government
openly used force to collect the lands from reluctant farmers, the
lands of Babu and his cronies were fully protected from the
pooling. For instance, the capital region limit stopped exactly 10
meters away from the Lingamaneni Estates, which belongs to
Lingamaneni Ramesh, a close aid of Chandrababu Naidu. As a
return gift, the Chief Minister got a palace-like gurst house and
shares in Lingamaneni Estates.
Babu not only ensured full protection of the lands of his cronies
and their benamis but also ensured that the development
projects are established near their lands.
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He initially promised to give residential and commercial plots to
the farmers in their own villages. After completion of the land
pooling, Chandrababu is asking how the farmers can expect to
be rehabilitated in the same village.
He then promised to provide housing to each houseless family in
the Capital city region. However, he hasn't provded alternative
housing even to those who lost their houses during the
inauguration of the Capital city.
Chandrababu told the farmers that the residential and
commercial plots that would be given to them will value a lot and
they could become millionaires overnight once they own the
plots. However, now farmers are being allocated plots in
lowlands areas, which have a very little commercial value.
Chandrababu promised to give first preference to the residential
and commercial buildings of farmers.The government is now
coming up with several restrictions on the construction of
buildings in commercial and residential areas.
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government did not permit soil fertility tests as well.
At the end
In the name of Capital city, Chandrababu and his
cronies have made about Rs. 1 lakh crore. The state
government has organized three inaugural ceremonies
for the capital city. The state government's lackluster
efforts have not found much favour with the central
government. Prime Minister Modi attended the
commencement ceremony and he was expected to
announce a package. Instead of the package, given
the sad effort put by the state government, he gave
state four pots filled with mud.
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The
Captured
Capital
The new Capital of Andhra Pradesh is in the clutches of land
vultures, who are holding the high offices in the government. Not just
a few, but the quite a lot of TDP leaders under the guidance of
Chandrababu Naidu attacked the capital city and got substantial
amounts of lands registered in their names, or of their benamis.
Chandrababu Naidu concealed the decision that was taken in the first
cabinet meeting about the location of new capital city.
He intentionally confused people with his oft-changed statements.
He terrified the Dalits by initiating a misinformation campaign which
spread the rumour that the government was going to take away
assigned lands without paying any compensation. The enterprising
party leadership used all means at its disposal and succeeded in
making the farmers give up their lands. Thus, they bought 25,000
acres land in 29 villages, which are now part of the new Capital
region, at very low rates.
Once the location of Capital region was announced, the prices of
the lands in Amaravati area skyrocketed overnight. An acre of land
which was bought at Rs 4 lakh is now valued at Rs. 4 crore. This is
the story of Chandrababu and Company. who pocketed Rs. 1 lakh
crore through a scandal that is larger than any major scam in the
history of Independent India. What is presently known is only the tip
of the iceberg!
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Nara Lokesh
and his Benami Inc.
Benamis: Vemuri Ravi Kumar
Prasad and Vemuri Anuradha
Purchased Land: 500 acres
Amount Paid: Rs. 50 crore
Present Value: Rs. 650 crore
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2015, they went ahead with registrations against the payment of
remaining amount.
Black became White
However, their greed did not end with the accumulation of 500
acres. Lokesh used this occasion to convert black money which he
made after the TDP came to power. In Dharanikota and
Vaikuntapuram, the land price which Dr. Vemuri and his wife
purchased lands for different companies, was priced between Rs. 7
lakh to Rs. 12 lakh per acre. However, they declared that the value
of an acre of a land was Rs. 71,20,108. They inflated the original
price 10 times during the registration. Thus, they converted their
black money into white.
Who is this Ravi Kumar?
Mr. Ravi Kumar is none other than the
brother of Vemuri Hari Krishna, who has a
history of stealing Electronic Voting
Machines (EVMs) and tampering with them.
Hari Krishna was also the in-charge of the
social media campaign of TDP during the
2014 elections. He holds a key position in
Heritage Foods and the TDP. Once
Chandrababu came into power, Hari
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Sujana Chowdarys
Land Robbing
Benamis: Sri Kalinga Green Tech
Chemicals and Y. Siva
Ramakrishna
Purchased Land: 700 acres
Amount Paid: Rs. 35 crore
Present Value: Rs. 700 crore
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land is Rs. 50 lakh in this village.
This means the Central Minister who was privy to the insider
information has defrauded the farmers of Gudimetla village to the
tune of Rs. 56.89 crore. Besides this land, Sujana Chowdary has
targeted another 130 acres of forest land, which is adjacent to his
land plots. Now, he is practically encroaching that land. The
Gudimetla villagers are complaining that the men appointed by
Sujana Chowdary are restricting their movement into the forest lands,
which is a clear indication of encroachment efforts.
Unstoppalbe Exploitation
Sujana Chowdary's exploitation has spread to Veerullapadu and
Kanchikacherla mandals; of the same district. He 'adopted'
Ponnavaramm of Veerullapadu mandal and bought 5.39 acres land
(Survey No: 38-1) in the name of his father Y. Janardhana Rao and
another 3.5 acres of land (Survey No: 41) in the name of his brother
Y. Siva Rama Krishna. He also bought 3.60 acres of land of survey
number 116/3 at Keesara.
Mr. Chowdary used the same modus operandi to buy 700 acres
of land in the mandals of Chandarlapadu, Kanchikacherla and
Veerullapadu in Krishna district and Mangalagiri mandal of Guntur
district. After the Capital region scandal came out, he stated that he
bought land because he had the money and questioned what's
wrong with that! This statement of him clearly indicates that he was
privy to critical information about the location of the capital region
before it was made public.
Murali Mohan
The Real Benami
Purchased Land: 53 acres
Amount Paid: Rs. 16 crore
Present Value: Rs. 212 crore
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The MoU of Jayabheri Group for
construction of residential flats.
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Ravela
Traitor of Dalits
Benami: Wife of the Minister Ravela
Santhi Jyothi
Purchased Land: 55 acres
Amount Paid: Rs. 5.5 crore
Present Value: Rs. 82.5 crore
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Kishore Babu bought this land and got it registered in the name of his
wife Ravela Santhi Jyothi on August 5, 2015 in Mangalagiri Sub-
registrar office. He also got GPA on 25 acres of assigned lands. He
bought another 0.75 acres of land (Survey No: 613/2) through a
compnay named Maitri Infra. This company is owned by Mr. Tella
Srinivasa Rao, a confidant of Mr. Kishore Babu. The registration took
place on October 16, 2015. It is learnt that Ravela Kishore Babu
bought a total of 55 acres of both assigned lands and patta lands.
The GO that
brought
Jaggayyapeta
under CRDA
purview after two
months of the
land allocation.
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Assigned Lands in
Prathipatis Account
Land Purchased: 196 acres
Amount Paid: Rs. 39 crore
Present Value: Rs. 784 crore
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The lanka land purchased by Gummadi Suresh, a confidant
of Prathipati Pulla Rao
Distance 10 Meters
The Chief Minister, who grabbed fertile, multi-crop lands from the
farmers for the sake of Capital region, did not take a single yard of
land from his benamis. The fact that the Lingamaneni Estate is
located just 10 meters away from the capital region's limits proves
CM's bias. In return, Lingamaneni Ramesh gifted the CM a guest
house that was built on the riverbed, breaching all environmental
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sanctions. It is also an open secret that CM family has shares in
Lingamaneni Estate. Can anybody give a better example for quid pro
quo than the CM protecting the lands of private persons and
accepting gifts in return?
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This is Real Quid Pro Quo
The bigwigs of government helped the Lingamaneni Group to sell
its 700 villas and plots in its IJM Apartments at quite high prices.
Once all those plots were sold, the government gave the statement
that the new Capital will come at Thullur village. For this coordinated
delay of the final statement, some shares of Lingamaneni Group
were transferred to the CM's family members. Besides that, the guest
house that was built on the banks of River Krishna without any
permissions was gifted to the Chief Minister.
After accepting the gift, the Chief Minister spent a whooping Rs.
100 crore on to further development of the guest house. It was called
' the unofficial guest house of CM' until December 25. When the Chief
Engineer of Roads and Buildings Department objected to a proposal
to fix electric appliances worth Rs. 2.27 crore in the building, the
government was left with no option but to issue a GO converting the
illegal guest house into 'temporary official guest house' on December
25. Even TDP sources admit that this is a real quid pro quo
transaction.
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262-A, 262-B and 358-1B.
Lingamaneni Estates Pvt. Ltd: Account No: 100157, Survey No:
206-A.
Lingamaneni Prasanthi: Survey Nos: 228-2C, 229-A, 229-B,
276 and 277.
Lingamaneni Swarna Kumari: Account No: 1488, Survey Nos:
238, 239, 240-1 and 240-2.
Lingamaneni Sumana: Account No: 1488, Survey Nos: 278,
279-A, 279-B, 280, 283-1 and 287-5.
Laukya Housing Pvt. Ltd. MD Lingamaneni Sumana: Account
No: 2372, Survey Nos: 372-2A, 372-A.
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One Bit,
One Benami
Sufficient proof for capital land robbing
The capital city land scandal is ubiquitous. One doesn't need a deep
investigation to obtain the evidence for the involvement of the CM
and his cronies, it is just out there. Thousands of farmers wouldn't
have lost their livelihoods and their prospective fortunes if the ruling
party was fair to them. The cronies of Chandrababu and their
benamis abused their power and wrecked havoc in the lives of the
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farmers of new Capital area. This scandal was scripted and directed
by Chandrababu Naidu under the guise of developing a world-class
city and it rivals any great land scam in the world.
The Minister for Municipal Administration & Urban Development P.
Narayana, who is playing an active role in the CRDA affairs,
personifies this scandal. The minister bought land wherever he could.
45 cents, 87 centshowsoever small the land bit was, he bought the
land. These land bits are bought in the names of his employees,
relatives and even of domestic maids. The minister now has a
footprint in all 29 villages of the Capital region. The CM Chandrababu
Naidu was so impressed with Narayana's penchant for land and
entrusted the complete responsibility of the Capital region to him.
Thus, Narayana became the head of all TDP leaders and MLAs in
Capital region affairs.
Narayana..
Narayana
Purchase Land: 3,129 acres
Amount Paid: 432 acres
Present Value: Rs. 10,000 crore
The Municipal Adminstration and Urban Development Minister, P.
Narayana, who is an important mandarin in the affairs of Capital
region, is active in purchasing lands across the region. Until 2014,
Narayana was known as the owner of a large education group. He
got his presnt MLC and Minister positions because of his heavy
donations to the TDP during the 2014 elections. Impressed with his
prowess, Chandrababu Naidu stripped the powers of Revenue
Minister and gave the charge of the Capital region affairs to
Narayana.
As part of his 'duties', Narayana toured the Capital region
extensively and conducted several grama sabhas. With the help of
the Sarpanches and TDP leaders, he gathered full details about
assigned and lanka lands. Through them, he spread the rumors that
the government was going to wrest the assigned and lanka lands
without compensating the farmers. When the farmers panicked, he
sent his army of benamis across the Capital region and bought land,
notwithstanding its location and size. He bought 3,129 acres in the
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Magic in bits
The land that was purchased in the name of Avula Munisankar
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name of his benamis at the cost per acre ranging between Rs. 10
lakh and Rs. 15 lakh. As the landholdings are smaller in this region,
he even bought a plot of 25 cents.
Total of 3,129 acres
Narayana displayed all his craftiness and experience in the
Capital land purchases. Initially, he paid only Rs. 2 lakh per acre and
made the secret agreements with the farmers in the name of his
benamis. Narayana paid the remaining amount and got the GPA of
those lands transferred to his benamis only after Chandrababu
declared that the government would acknowledge ownership rights
to the most recent owners of the lands. This statement was
particularly important for the assigned and lanka lands. Finally, those
lands were registered in the names of several of his employees and
relatives. To ensure secrecy, he made use of representation system
of online registration. In this format of registration, the seller doesn't
need to see the buyers directly and farmers did not even know who
the actual buyer of the land was.
Too many benami transactions
Akula Munisankar, Ravuri Sambasiva Rao and Potturi Prameela
are some of the benamis of Narayana.
Munisankar bought 1.50 acres of land (Survey No: 126) in
Mandadam village- which is very close to Core Capital- at the cost of
Rs. 2.25 crore from Nootaki Narasimha Naidu, according to the
villagers. While the government rate is Rs. 6 lakh per acre, the
registration documents says that he showed that the land bought the
land for Rs. 9 lakh. Likewise, Munisankar bought 0.37 acre from
(Survey No: 15/1) from Borugadda Ramprakash in Mandadam; 0.56
acre (Survey No: 109/1) from Bodipudi Venkataramana in
Lingayapalem; 0.45 acre (Survey No: 140/A) from Kottapalli Radha
Rani in Lingayapalem; 0.28 acre (Survey No: 188) from Kottapalli
Radha Rani in Lingayapalem; 0.75 acre (Survey Nos: 119/A, 119/F)
from Shaik Hasraf Unnisa and others in Rayapudi; 0.87 acre (Survey
Nos: 354/1A, 354/1B) from Lambu Venkateswarlu and 0.25 acre
(Survey No: 360/1) from Velagaleti Ramadevi. Thus, he purchased
about 30 acres in bits and pieces.
Minister's brother-in-law Ravuri Samabasiva Rao bought about
0.32 acre (Survey No: 465/3B) in Mandadam and in total he has
bought about 29 acres of land. Potturi Prameela bought 15 acres and
the modus operandi was the same. She bought 0.98 acre (Survey
Nos: 51/B, 51/C), 0.45 acre (Survey No: 95/C) in
Uddandarayanipalem, which is near to Thullur.
However, none of them actually have the financial wherewithal to
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own such a significant amount of real estate. Besides these three,
quite a few of his employees and relatives were used by Narayana.
A senior official who mans the CRDA affairs very closely told Sakshi
that the Minister has a total of 3,129 acres in the Capital region.
For sure 400 acres
Borupalem village of Thullur mandal doesn't come under land
pooling scheme. Hence, Narayana mainly focused on this village. He
bought about 50 acres assigned land in that village alone. He bought
another 50 acres of lanka land in the Rayapudi lankas between the
survey numbers of 250 and 400. Tokala Peturu, Tokala Ankulu,
Mendem Nageswara Rao, Mendem Koteswara Rao, Bulleddula
Chinnappa, Valaparla Ramaiah, Laalaadi Aadeyya, Laladi Sundara
Rao from Borupalem and Rayapudi villages told Sakshi that they sold
the lands to Narayana and handed over their land documents to his
benamis. It is learnt that Narayana was behind the government order
to give residential and commercial plots at the same to all those who
gave their lands. According to the senior official, Narayana will get a
minimum of 400 acres of land in the Capital region.
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Rama... Rama
Krishna Krishna
Real Estate Venture: 179.54 acres
Assigned Lands: 54 acres
The collusion between
Some of the farmers of
the realtors and the heads
of the government created
Nambur village who sold their
a conducive atmosphere assigned lands to
for this high-volume Ramakrishna Housing Pvt. Ltd.
corruption. After accepting
Name Land Sold
heavy bribes, the heads of
(In acres)
the AP government
approved a real estate Namburu Vijaya Bhaskar 2.00
venture that has come up Namburu Subbamma 1.65
on the assigned lands of Matangi Subbamma 0.30
Dalits. Here are the Namburu Chinna 1.00
details. Matangi Maarthamma 0.30
A real estate company Namburu Maha Lakshmaiah 3.00
named Ramakrishna Kolakaluri Sambaiah 0.30
Housing Pvt. Ltd. came up Namburu Raju 1.00
with a venture on 179.54
Kokkalgadda Ruthamma 1.50
acres of land, which is
Bulla Aarogyam 0.30
located behind Acharya
Nagarjuna University and Namburu Slaman 0.30
adjacent to Kolkata- Namburu Rosaiah 1.00
Chennai National High Namburu Yohanu 1.00
Way. This venture is in the Namburu Koteswaramma 0.50
range of Kaza village of Namburu Subba Rao 0.50
Nambur mandal. Chilaka Nagewara Rao 0.60
It has bought 94 acres Namburu Yohanu 0.70
in Kaza village survey Namburu Nagendram 1.00
numbers between 78 and Nambur Aadeiah 2.00
107 and acquired
remaining 76 acres from poor farmers. In this process, the company
has acquired 54 acres of assigned lands. Though these lands could
not be registered, the company bribed the officials of Peda Kakani
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Sub-registrar office and got the lands registered. Since, there was no
objection from the Registration Office; the Vijayawada-Guntur-Tenali-
Mangalagiri (VGTM) Urban Development Authority gave the
necessary permissions for commercial development on those lands.
The company started selling villas and plots within no time with the
help of its vast network of marketing staff and of heavy publicity.
Huge share to China Babu
However, the scenario changed after the announcement of
Capital city. The ministers and government officials entered the
scene after the announcement and started threatening the realty
company that its land could be taken in the pooling process as the
venture bought a considerable amount of assigned lands.
The bullied company worked out a compromise with the ruling
party. A central minister facilitated the deal. As a result, the company
was completely backed by the government. Then the company which
initially sold a sq. yard of land for Rs. 4,000 hiked it up to Rs. 25,000.
This entire scandal came out when some of the Dalit farmers
under the leadership of David, a farmer from Nambur, complained
about the existence of assigned lands in the venture to Guntur district
Collector. However, this inquiry produced no result and there are
allegations that government suppressed the probe at the behest of
Nara Lokesh, who in turn received a huge share in the venture. When
Sakshi sought the explanation from Mangalagiri Tehsildar on this
issue, she confirmed that there were canals and poramboke lands in
that venture.
Payyavula Keshav
descended
Land purchased: 4.09 acres
Amount paid: Rs. 12.27 lakh
Present value: Rs. 8 crore
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but confused the people as to its location
by providing two to three choices. Never
mind, he gave sufficient clarity to his
followers on the location of the Capital city.
This informational advantage made the
ruling party MLC Payyavula Keshav to
descend upon the Capital region. He
toured the villages and found out the best
location where the land was currently
cheap, yet would provide returns in the
future. He finally bought land in Inavolu
village, which is adjacent to today's Core
Capital region. He bought 4.09 acres
(Survey Nos: 48/3, 49/3) of land on The documents of land
October 13, 2014, and got registered in that was bought in the
the name of his elder son Payyavula name of Payyavula
Vikrama Simha. The in the registration Vikrama Simha
documents state that he bought land at a
cost of Rs. 3.07 lakh per acre, but the same land now costs Rs. 2
crore in Inavolu. This means his land prices have gone up by at least
50 per cent within a year.
Payyavula Keshav always accuses the Opposition of being
envious of TDP government's achievements. Many a time, he said
the government was building a 'people's capital' and the Opposition
could not stomach this achievement. Now, he must answer why he
deceived the farmers of Capital region by taking advantage of the
crucial information on the location of Capital region.
Dhulipalla's
Poramboke Lands
Encroached land: 50 acres
Registered Land: 3.89 acres
Ever since the Capital city location was announced, the illegal
land grabbing by the MLAs, MPs and the leaders of the ruling party
knew no limits. The assigned lands, lanka lands, rivulet lands and
poramboke lands, they are leaving no land unregistered. They are
creating counterfeit documents, bribing the officials and staff of
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revenue and registration
departments and getting the
lands registered in the names of
their benamis.
Ponnur MLA Dhulipalla
Narendra Kumar's 'success story'
exemplifies such legal plunder by
the elected representatives in
Andhra Pradesh. After the Capital
city announcement, the prices of
the lands that are adjacent to
Kolkata-Chennai highway went
up. This has 'incetivised' the MLA
to eye the rivulet lands in Nambur
of Peda Kakani mandal.
Registrations under The documents of the rivulet
land appropriated by Dhulipalla
pressure Narendra in the name of one of
his relatives.
Narendra Kumar moved
pawns tactically to get 3.80 acres of rivulet land (Survey No: 274)
registered in the name of his benami and close relative Devara
Pullaih. He pressurised the revenue officials and created land
purchase documents numbered 2638, 2639 and 2640 in the names
of his benamis to create link documents.
The first buyer was Pullaiah's son D. Sambasiva Rao. Then he
registered this land in the names of Upputuri Kiran Kumar, Adusumilli
Ravi Kiran and Venna Peda Achhi Reddy. With this process, link
documents were created. Later, these three have 'sold' the land to
Sambasiva Rao's father Devara Pullaiah. Under the pressure from
the ruling party MLA, the officials have divided the land into three
survey numbers viz. -274/B6, B7 and B8 and registered in the name
of Pullaiah. According to present market rate, this land value is up to
Rs. 5 crore.
Encroachment of 50 Acres Poramboke Land
The MLA encroached 50 acres of poramboke land in Peda Kakani
mandal and is converting it into agricultural land with the help of his
men. These men are digging bore wells in these lands. It is learnt that
the MLA had called up the Village Revenue Officer (VRO) and
ordered him to grant permissions to dig borewells on the encroached
land. The entire village knows that these lands are poramboke lands,
but nobody is speaking as they fear that they would be attacked or
would have cases filed against them.
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Kodelas Son, the
Rising Star of the Land!
Land Purchased: 17.3 acres
Amount Paid: Rs. 93 lakh
Present Value: Rs.18.4 Crore
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17.3 acres land in survey numbers 167-1A, 167-1C, 168-1 and 168-
3 in Dhulipalla village of Sattenapalli mandal. Smelling an
opportunity, Siva Rama Krishna summoned one of the brothers and
bought his land for just Rs. 8 lakh per acre while the prevailing
market rate is about Rs. 1.5 crore. Though a case is pending in the
court about this land, the revenue officials hardly cared for that fact
and registered the land in the name of Sasi Infra, in which Gutta
Naga Prasad is a Managing Partner. Kodela Siva Rama Krishna
used the same tactic, of forcibly occupying, to usurp several acres
in Narasaraopet and Sattenapalli constituencies.
Emperor of Corruption 97
Kommalapati
Perfectly Illegal!
Land Purchased: 42 acres
Amount Paid: Rs. 1.26 lakh
Present Value: Rs. 210 Crore
98 Emperor of Corruption
The land documents of Abinandana Real Estate that
belong to Pedakuraadu TDP MLA Kommalapati Sridhar.
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Open fraud and
deception
the farmers response
It was a panic sale
I read all the stories of land robbing in Sakshi and they
are completely true. In the beginning, when we refused
to give our lands, the government terrified us.
They said that the lands could be taken away
forcibly if we were not to surrender them
voluntarily. The ruling party leaders and officials
told us that we wouldn't get a compensation of
Rs. 20 lakh if we refuse to part ways with our
lands. We were terrified by the government's
adamant behaviour and sold our lands. Now the same
land value has reached to Rs. 1.40 crore per acre.
- Kommareddy Picchi Reddy, Nidamarru, Mangalagiri mandal.
Government duped us
Ever since the government announced the location of
Capital region, it has been deceiving us. When we were
reluctant to give our lands, they used several
tactics to frighten us. Due to this pressure, we
sold out our lands at cheaper rates. The
ministers and leaders who bought this land from
us told that we wouldn't get the right amount of
compensation in the land pooling scheme and
made us sell our lands. The farmers have
incurred heavy losses as they sold the lands at
throwaway prices.
- Koppolu Venkateswarlu, Bethapudi, Mangalagiri mandal.
Lingamaneni Ramesh
A King of Encroachments
Very Close to the CM!
The
beginning of
Lingamaneni
Estate at
Kaza village.
Rayapudi
(6 lankas)
Uddandarayanipalem
Mandadam
Venkatapalem
Undavalli lankas
A Ravan in
Every Lanka
They always eyed the lanka (riverbed) lands and
assigned lands from the very beginning.
is the number of lankas (riverbed land areas) the in Capital city
2159.17
acres of lanka and assigned lands are being cultivated
in these villages. Out of this, 574.93 acres are assigned
lands and 1,584.24 acres are lanka lands.
2,028
acres of assigned land is being cultivated in the Capital
city region. 1,278 acres of land was assigned in 1954.
The remaining 750 acres were distributed to SC, ST, BC
farmers in later phases.
Dhulipalla
did not Stop
Dhulipalla Narendra Kumar
did not stop with encroaching
the rivulet poramboke lands in
Nambur village of Peda Kakani
mandal. Being tipped off about
the location of the Capital city,
he bought 0.72 acres (Survey
no: 69-1) and 2.86 acres
(Survey no: 69-2) in Inavolu
The documents of land village, which is quite close to
bought by Dhulipalla Narendra Core Capital region in the
Kumar in the name of his name of his elder daughter
daughter Dhulipalla Veera Vaishnavi. He
bought this land in 2014 itself
for Rs. 3.80 lakh per acre.
Thus, he pocketed 3.58 acre
land for only Rs. 13.60 lakh.
Now the same land costs
about Rs. 7 crore per acre. It
learnt that Dhulipalla bought a
total of 50 acres land in the
Capital region in the name of
his benamis.
The package for assigned lands was announced on February 17, 2016
after the ruling party operatives have concluded their land deals.
Officials Scared Us
The government gave the land to our great grandfathers.
We have been living on our 75 cents lands since then.
We refused to give our land for land pooling for quite
some time. However, the government
officials and TDP leaders scared us telling
that government would take back the
assigned lands without any compensation
and it would better for us to surrender it. So,
we gave away our land. However, we haven't
got any compensation so far. Now, we are
deprived of our only source of livelihood as
we cannot cultivate that land anymore. We
have been making rounds to government
offices for our compensation. We request the
government that it should compensate
assigned lands farmers on par with other
lands.
- Pachhala Nageswara Rao,
Mohan Rao, Navuluru.