HYDERABAD: "I left the last cabinet meeting midway as I was not inclined to sign on the resolution allocating about 35 acres of assigned land at Timmapur to an entrepreneur for setting up a cold storage," minister for textiles P Shankar Rao has said.
Speaking to reporters in his chamber at the Secretariat here on Tuesday, he alleged that a minister from Nellore and another from Mahaboobnagar district played a key role in the allotment of the land."The cabinet ratified the allotment of 35 acres of land to a private person at Thimmapur village, about 20 to 25 km away from city, at a meagre price of `6 lakh per acre. I wrote a letter to chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy opposing the land allotment but there is no response from the government," he said.
Asked if he would attend the next cabinet meeting to be held on November 30, Rao said he would not sign if such land allocation proposals came at the cabinet meeting. Moreover, his priority was conducting a meeting of floor leaders of all parties on weavers' issues on the day rather than attend the cabinet meeting, he said. Shankar Rao said the government allocated thousands of acres of land for establishment of SEZs and several violations of rules and benami allocations would come to light if a CBI inquiry was ordered into the matter. The minister said he had sent a proposal to the CMO to allow him to lead a delegation to China to study new techniques in the leather industry there for incorporation in LIDCAP, but the government allowed only him, not experts, to China.
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