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2 Emperor of Corruption

3Emperor 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, commissions…the 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.

Chandrababu Naidu

The Emperor of Corruption


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


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!


IndexRecent 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

Chandranna’s Gift 40

Lokesh Deal with Millers 41

Kuppam Branch Canal Works only for Stooges 41

Day-light Robbery in Goddumarri 41


Babu’s 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? 56The Daylight Robbery 58The Devil in Detail 60Capital Culprits 64A World Class Scam 69The Captured Capital 74Nara Lokesh and his Benami Inc. 75Sujana Chowdary’s Land Robbing 77Murali Mohan - The Real Benami 78Ravela… Traitor of Dalits 80Rs. 295 Crore Dowry to Balakrishna’s Relative 81Assigned Lands in Prathipati’s Account 82Quid pro quo with Lingamaneni 83One Bit, One Benami 87Narayana.. Narayana 88Rama... Rama… Krishna… Krishna 92Payyavula Keshav Descended 93Dhulipalla's Poramboke Lands 94Kodela’s Son, the Rising Star of the Land! 96Kommalapati… Perfectly Illegal! 98Open Fraud and Deception… the Farmers’ Response 100Lingamaneni Ramesh - A King of Encroachments 103A Ravan in Every Lanka 107Dhulipalla did not Stop 113Share of Anjaneyulu is 4.69 acres! 114Assigned Lands Alienated 115Red Zone in the Name of Green Zone 121


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


Rs. 1,00,000 CroreCapital Robbery

CM Chandrababu leaked vital information regarding theCapital city location to his benamis and party men

Nara Lokesh, his confidants and TDP leadersbenefitted to the tune of Rs. 1,00,000 crore

The government is doing real estate businesswith 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 CM’s 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

The note issued by the Water

Resources Department

which shows that the

Lingamaneni guest house

was constructed in violation

of River Conservation Act.


The AP Government orders issued on

January 1, 2015, which stated that

assigned lands would be pooled

under land pooling process.

The Government orders issued onFebruary 17, 2016, specifying thecompensation for assigned lands

after the conclusion of land deals byTDP realtors

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


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'

lands. While APZ-1 has a heavy

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.

The draft policy guidelines of the

CRDA that classified the Capital city

lands into different zones.

PresentUrbanArea

ProposedUrbanArea

ProposedIndustrial

Area

Agriculture Zone - 1




The AP government removed the works of Galeru-Nagari Sujala

Sravanthi (GNSS), Handri-Neeva Sujala Sravanti (HNSS) and Gorakallu

projects from previous contractors, which was against the regulations.

Then it escalated the costs of the projects many times and called for new

Some parts of the GOs 153, 154 and 156 which have

finalised the additional payments

A scam took place in thename of cost escalation,

which is worth about

Rs. 6000 crore

The money thathas been offeredas the return gift

Rs. 3000 crore

Rs. 6,000 CroreOpposition of Two Chief Secretaries’ could Not Stop

Corruption in Irrigation Department


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 India’s

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 government’s watch and half

of the amount i.e. Rs. 3,000 has already changed hands.


The heads of AP government brought GO no: 22 to make additional

payments to contractors. According to this GO, the government can

escalte the costs of the projects that awarded under the Engineering,

Procurement and Construction (EPC) method.

Even though the projects awarded under the EPC need not to be

escalated, the AP government has introduced a new provision for cost

escalation even for project that were tendered under the EPC. That too

with a retrospective effect from 2013. This GO hugely benefits the

favoured contractors, causing a huge loss to the exchequer, and that too

when prices of all commodities like cement, steel and diesel have crashed.

The government is also killing several other prudential practices. For

the first time, it expressed willingness to pay Standard Schedule Rates

(SSR) for concrete works. This is going to burden the exchequer an

additional Rs. 3,000 crore. Half of this money-Rs. 1,500 crore- would be

repaid to the bigwigs of government as the kickback.

Due to the GOs 22 and 63, the rate of cubic meter concrete has gone

up from present Rs. 2,500 to Rs. 4,000. Now, the government has

increased another Rs. 3000 for cubic meter concrete and is ready to pay

Rs. 7,000! These GOs have made provision for generous additional

payments for labour, sand, machinery, dewatering, controlled blasting,

digging of hard soils, digging of hardest soils, among others.

Rs. 1,500 CroreEPC out, Additional Payments in!!

The additional payment

made to the contractors

Rs. 3,000 crore

The money that was

paid a bribes

Rs. 1,500 crore

The GO 22, a generous boon to contractors


Polavaram project is a national project according to the Section 90 (IV) ofthe AP Reorganisation Act. This means it is the responsibility of the Centralgovernment to fund the project, get the required clearances and completethe project. The Centre has formed Polavaram Project Authority (PPA) takecare of this project. The initial estimated cost of the Polavaram project in2005-06 was Rs. 10,151.45 crore. The amended estimation of the project in2010-11 was Rs. 16,010.45 crore and the same was approved by the PlanningCommission. However, the present TDP government has straight away takenthis cost to Rs. 31,000 crore.

The AP government- which doesn’t want to hand over this ‘lucrative’project to the Centre- has so far failed to submit certain omissions to the PPAwith the objective to prevent the handing over the process. Since the APgovernment has failed to submit the project to the centre, the project ispresently under its watch. The state government is making the most of theopportunity.

For instance, the value of head works which are being executed by thepresent contractor has been increased from present Rs. 4,041 crore to Rs.6961 crore. According to prevailing norms of kickbacks, Rs. 690 crore will gothe accounts of the bigwigs. Hundreds of crores of rupees have been given asmobilization advance to the companies such as Transstory India Ltd. Theseventh package works left by undone by L&T valued at Rs. 23 crore wasgiven on nomination basis for an inflated price of Rs. 73 crore.

In all, according to the officials of the Irrigation Department, 10% of thetotal project cost i.e. Rs. 3,000 crore is going into the pockets of thegovernment heads.

Rs. 3000 crorePolavaram Project Costs Skyrocketed!

The cost for Polavaram project

after cost escalation

Rs. 31,000 crore

The money that has changed

hands in this transaction is

Rs. 3,000 crore

Two portions of the proceedings that were approved by the

state cabinet for escalating the costs of Polavaram project.


Polavaram project is a God’s gift to Andhra Pradesh. Instead of completing this

mega project, Chandrababu Naidu brought forth the Patti Seema project, which

actually is a part of Polavaram project. The project cost was estimated to be a

whopping Rs. 1,300 crore and contract was awarded to a contractor who is close

to the Chandrababu Naidu.

Firstly, some conditions in the tender schedule were tailor-made to suit to a

few companies that are close to the CM. Though Estimated Project Value (EPV)

was Rs. 1300 crore, the bid of the L1 contractor was Rs. 1,600 crore, which was 21.9

% higher than the EPV. According to the rules, any bid that is more than 5 % of the

EPV amount shall be rejected. However, the company was given the contract by

converting the remaining 16.9 % (21.9 % - 5 %) into the bonus for completing the

project in time! Actually, the bonus clause was not even a part of the contract

when the tenders were called. The AP government has added this provision to

Patti Seema project contract to get additional kickbacks. Though there was an

opportunity to bring down the project cost by changing the designs and

reducing the number of motors and pipelines, the government is paying an

additional amount of Rs. 250 crore to the contractor.

The Irrigation Department officials think that the kickbacks were the reason

for government’s generosity towards the contractors. The Chief Minister

Chandrababu Naidu and his son Lokesh inflated the cost of Patti Seema project to

Rs. 1,600 crore and are said to be benefitting to the tune of Rs. 700 crore.

Rs. 700 crorePatti Seema Project– Exclusively for Kickbacks

After the escalation,

the cost of Patti Seema

project has gone up to

Rs. 1,600 crore

The kickbacks that have been

offered to the government

heads so far are

Rs. 450 crore

The total amount

of kickbacks is

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.


An Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) thief, an accused in EVM

tampering case, TDP Information Technology advisor, a key person in

Heritage Group of Chandrababu and his benami…all of them are one and

the same person- Vemuri Harikrishna Prasad.

Though his company Tera Software and its affiliates were blacklisted

by the Andhra Pradesh Technology Services, Chandrababu Naidu

government awarded the works of Fiber Grid project worth Rs. 320.85

crore to this company. U-WIN, a central government project which

collects the data of unorganized labourers was also gifted to the

company of Harikrishna Prasad. While the initial cost of this project cost

was Rs. 45 crore, it was increased to Rs. 180 crore and awarded to Tera

Software. The plans are in the pipeline to award E-pragathi project- which

is worth of Rs. 2,398 crore- to Tera Software’s partner Cisco Software.

While the total value of these projects is Rs. 2,800 crore, half of the money

i.e. Rs. 1,400 was supposed to reach the pockets of the government heads,

according to the officials who don’t want to be named.

Rs. 1400 croreBenami bags Huge Contracts

The value of projects that were

awarded to Harikrishna Prasad-

a confidant of Nara Lokesh is

Rs. 2,800 crore

The 50% of kickbacks

in the transaction is

Rs. 1,400 crore

The GO that has finalised the rules

and regulations of the tender

The 5th page of the GO that shows the

appointment of Harikrishna Prasad as a

member of High-Level Tender Approval

Committee.


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.

Rs. 5,100 crore“Additional Liquor!!”

The GO that permitted the production of liquor

The kickbacks from

the liquor syndicate

in last 20 months

Rs. 4,000 crore.

The bribe that was paid bythe Liquor Syndicate for

Karnataka-style liquor policy

Rs. 1,000 crore

The bribe that was paid

for new distilleries

Rs. 100 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

contractor’s scope

without any penalties and

the same was retendered.

The cost was increased

to Rs. 115 crore and

awarded to Ritvik Projects

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.


Rs. 153 croreGaleru-Nagari Project Escalated!

The memo issued by the Chief Engineer seeking a report on

Avuku tunnel works as there were corruption allegations.

The additional amount paid to TDP MP C M Ramesh in

two packages of Galeru-Nagari Project is Rs. 153 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.

Rs. 100 croreMining Barytes Commissions

The GO that has decreased the basic rates.

The benefit that was given toprivate companies in barytes

mineral sale transactions

Rs. 178 crore

The money that changed

hands in this transaction

Rs. 100 crore


About Rs. 500 crore taxpayers’ money was wasted in purchasing theimported coal for Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation Ltd. (APGenco). A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed in the Hyderabad HighCourt in this regard. The following is the story. The AP Genco entered intoagreements with the central government units PEC Limited and MSTC Ltd. onMay 6, 2013 to purchase imported coal. Though the tenure of the contractwas only for 6 months, the purchases continued until the end of 2015. Although it was the government companies that were on screen, the coal mafiaran the actual show under the guise of sub-contracts.

While 12 lakh ton coal was purchased during the contract period, 19.25lakh tons of coal was purchased after the agreement time. The coal rate in theinternational market per ton during the contract period was US$ 69.15, itbecame US$ 80.15 after the inclusion of sea freight charges of US$ 11.However, the coal price came down in the international market to US$ 52.40by March 2015 and its final rate after addition of US$ 7.23 of sea freightcharges was US$ 59.63.

The AP Genco paid additional price of US$ 20.55 for each ton of coal it hadimported. In all, it paid Rs. 246 crore additionally. Though it was thecontractor’s onus to transport the coal from Krishnapatnam port to thethermal projects, the AP Genco paid this fee too. For the transportation costs,the contractors were paid Rs. 100 crore during the contract period and Rs. 200crore after the contract time was over.

A total of Rs. 546 crore of public money was misused by the government.According to a highly reliable source, a good amount of that money went intothe pocket of the Chief Minister.

The money that changed hands in this

transaction is Rs. 200 crore.

The summons issued by the Central Revenue Intelligence Directorateon the problems in the bills of imported coal.

Rs. 200 croreImported Coal lasts long!

The value of a possible scandal in the

coal purchases is Rs. 500 crore


The AP Genco favoured a few private companies in awarding the

tenders for solar power projects, which are to be established in Anantapur

district. The details are as following.

The AP Genco called for Engineering, Procurement & Construction

(EPC) tenders for its 500-MW solar power project in Talaricheruvu village

near Tadiparti town of Anantapur. The BHEL, which quoted Rs. 6.26 crore

for Mega Watt was selected as L-1 through reverse bidding method.

However, the government strangely gave this project at the same price to

other companies such as Sterling, Tata, L&T and MEGA.

The problem is this price itself is an inflated price. The NTPC which is

establishing a similar thermal power plant in the same district has

finalised the price of Rs. 4.91 crore for MW. According to power sector

experts, Rs. 4.75 crore is the reasonable cost for the production one MW

solar power.

Even the eligibility criteria of the companies have become an issue.

While 17 companies participated in the tender bidding of National

Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), only five companies got the eligibility

to participate in the tender process of AP Genco. This was because the

important conditions of the tender were tailor-made to suit the interests

of curtained favoured companies. The AP Genco is paying Rs. 1.51 crore

extra for each MW of power, which means the company will be burdened

by Rs. 755 crore. When the scandal was taken up Sakshi daily and a few

PILs were filed in the Hyderabad High Court, the AP government stopped

approval process. It was clear the tender process was initiated to kick start

a scam and finally got stopped due the Court and media intervention.

The prospective loss that will haveto be borne by AP Genco, as it had

to allow the highest bidding, is

Rs. 755 crore.

The money that changed

hands in this transaction is

Rs. 155 crore

The new regulations created by the Andhra Pradesh Power GenerationCorporation Ltd. (AP Genco) to select the ‘choicest’ companies

Rs. 155 crore Solar Golmaal!!


The Chandrababu Naidu Government decided to provide ‘additional

incentives’ to 10 industries for reasons that were best known to him. Recently, the

Govenrment have released industrial incentives pending for the last few years to

their choicest industries even without asking, setting aside several other

industries which claimed the incentives and are waiting eagerly for the release of

the same. For this, the Government went beyond its present industrial policy and

this decision cost the exchequer Rs. 5000 crore. It is learnt that half of this amount

i.e. Rs. 2500 would reach the government heads. While the new industrial policy

of the state allows only 50 % subsidy in power charges, these 10 companies were

given 100 % reimbursement in VAT and CST!

Rs. 2,500 croreThese 10 companies deserve ‘additional incentives’!

Chandrababu gave additional incentives to 10 companies,

going beyond the announced industrial policy. This GO shows the

additional incentives that were showered on Tarakeswara Textiles Pvt. Ltd.

The total value of additional

incentives that were

extended to 10 companies

Rs. 5000 crore

The kickbacks to the

heads of the government

Rs. 2,500 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.

The total funds allocated for

Godavari Pushkarams is

Rs. 1,500 crore

The amount that recycled in

the form of kickbacks is

Rs. 750 crore

Pushkaram FundsHave gone Godavari Way!

Allegedly the Chief Minster backed a scam which was perpetuated by the

Agriculture Minister Prathipati Pulla Rao; who is playing a crucial role in the Capital

Region Development Authority (CRDA) affairs. He did this scam with help of a

cotton trader from Guntur district. Both of them have cheated the cotton farmers

of the district by selling their cotton to Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) in the

disguise of farmers. They used their relatives and brokers to sell cotton to the CCI.

The Vigilance and Enforcement Department report on this issue has made it clear

that 80 % of the purchases conducted by the CCI in Guntur district were bogus.

Though there was sufficient evidence for the role do the Minister in the

scandal, the Chief Minster rubbished the report and backed the minister. As of

now, the scam is under CBI probe. According to an estimate, the rapacious

minister made Rs. 200 crore by sidelining the farmers and paid Rs. 100 crore to the

Chief Minister for the protection.

The amount that was appropriated by relatives,confidants of the Agriculture Minister

Prathipati Pulla Rao is Rs. 200 crore.The bribe amount is

Rs. 100 crore

Mantri has Every Right to Cheat!!


Rs. 3,375 croreExploitation of Sand Mafia

The GO. No. 94 which presented the new sand policy

The clipping which shows the state Finance Minister YanamalaRamakrishnudu, who was confessing that an open robbery of

Rs. 2000 crore took place in the name of the sand mining

The actual incomethat was supposedto be earned by the

state government byFebruary 2016

through sand mining

Rs. 5,496 croreThe actual income

earned

Rs. 964 croreThe money thatwas swallowed

Rs. 4,500 croreThe 75% of the

amount went to theChief MinisterChandrababu

Naidu and his sonNara Lokesh i.e.

Rs. 3,375 crore

In Andhra Pradesh, the sand mining is taking place in 383 sand

reaches. The state has about 83 major sand reaches on Krishna, Godavari,

Penna and Tungabadhra rivers and 300 minor reaches. If the value of a

lorry of sand is Rs. 15,000 and a minimum of 50 lorries of sand were sold

from each major reach every day, the state government was supposed to

get Rs. 3174 crore income by the end of February 2016. Even if 10 lorries

of sand was sold from each minor reach every day, the government will

add another Rs. 2,295 crore to the state exchequer.

In total, the state government was supposed to get Rs. 5,469 crore

income from the sand mining. However, it has got only Rs. 964 crore. This

effectively means Rs. 4,500 crore of public money had gone to private

pockets. There are allegations that 75% of it (Rs. 3,375 crore) had gone to

the Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and his son Nara Lokesh. The state

Finance Minister Yanamala Ramakrishnudu at a press meet confessed the

sand scandal worth Rs. 2,000 crore.


Rs. 670 croreThermal Projects of Favoritism

Chandrababu Naidu inflated the prices of the works of proposed thermal

power plants at Krishnapatnam and Ibrahimpatnam. The APGenco has

awarded two 800 MW power projects, Krishnapatnam TPP to Tata Projects

Ltd. at Rs. 6.3 crore per MW and Ibrahimpatnam TPP to BGR at Rs. 5.85 crore,

respectively, which are quite high rate by any norms of the industry. While in

other states like Telangana and Gujarat, cost per MW is ranging from Rs. 3.94

crore to Rs. 4.76 crore, that too both these projects are of the same

specifications.

Though the Boiler, Turbine, Generator contracts of both the plants were

given to BHEL, a government undertaking, the ‘Balance of Plant’ contracts

were given the private companies.

To award contracts to these companies, the AP Genco adopted a criterion

which was more stringent than those used by the NTPC. Despite its present

financial difficulties, the AP Genco was ready to pay Rs. 2,680 crore extra

money to the contractors. As this transaction was made public by Sakshi daily,

the contract process was halted temporarily.

The additional payments made by

AP Genco in the two thermal projects

Rs. 2680 crore

The kickbacks

Rs. 670 crore.

The NTPC qualifying requirements which said completion ofone thermal project was sufficient to participate in its tender process

The AP Genco requirements that set the completion of at least

two projects as the eligibility criterion to favour BGR group


There was a huge scam in AP Electricity Board. According to an

estimate, about Rs. 15,000 crore scam has took place in power

purchases from the private power plants. From that amount, bigwigs

of the government have pocketed at least Rs. 4,000 crore.

The Chief Minister and his son displayed extraordinary keenness in

the activities of AP Transco and AP Genco. They micromanaged the

contracts, the power purchases as well as other tenders. Though there

was no need, the government bought power from private suppliers

with the pretext that the state always needs additional power. The

Rs. 4000 croreHuge Scam in

Electricity Department

The ‘differences’ in powerpurchases from

private companies is

Rs. 15,000 crore

The moneythat paid

as the bribe is

Rs. 4,000 crore

While the AP Electricity Regulatory Commission has confined the powerpurchases to 735 million units, the Discoms have bought 13 million units


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 country’s 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).

Indian Energy Exchange Laid it Bare


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.


The TDP government gifted the landwhich 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.

Rs. 245 croreBalakrishna's relative is always a ‘worthy’ man!

The GO that allocated 498.93 acres of land to VBC Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd. nearJaggayyapet, Krishna district. While an acre of land costs Rs. 50 lakh here, it was

allocated for only Rs. 1 lakh

The land that is worth of Rs. 250

crore was gifted to a relative of

the Chief Minister for only

Rs. 4.99 crore

They benefitted by

Rs. 245 croreand above


Chandrababu Naidu made strategic moves to grab valuable land in all

the district headquarters. As the Chief Minister, he approved the

applications that sought land allocation to NTR Trust. Interestingly, he was

the one who made these applications when he was chairman of the trust.

That means he made an application for the lands with on hand and

approved them with another; after he became the Chief Minister. He is

now going to extend this method to rest of the districts.

In the heart of Srikakulam town, 1.29 acres of land (Survey No: 700-1)

and another 0.71 acres of land (Survey No: 701-1) were allocated to NTR

Trust. This land was earmarked for the needs of the municipal

corporation. However, the same land is allocated to NTR Trust. To this

effect, orders were released on August 4. The land was leased to NTR Trust

for 99 years at annual lease fee of Rs. 25,000! Likewise, the 2000 sq. yards

land that is located in the heart of Kakinada city was also allocated to NTR

Trust. The market value of this land is about Rs. 25 crore. In Kadapa, one

acre land in the located in the centre of the city was also allocated to the

Trust for Rs. 10 lakh. The market value of this land is about Rs. 50 crore. The

decks are being cleared to make similar allocations in rest of the 10

districts.

The GO that allocated the land in Kakinada to NTR Trust

The value of land that was allocated to

NTR Trust in three districts is Rs. 100 crore.

One hand proposes,another hand approves


The Chandrababu Naidu's government is leaving no stone unturned to

make money for party men. One of the direct ways to do so, is to award them

the work contracts on nomination basis without calling for any tenders. Such

works are majorly available in four departments viz. – Irrigation, Municipal

Administration, Panchayat Raj and Roads and Buildings Department. So far,

Rs. 695 crore worth works have been awarded to the ruling party cadre in

these four departments on nomination basis. These works do not include the

works of Water and Tree scheme, which also offers massive work

opportunities.

Rs. 350 crore worth works in Irrigation Department, Rs. 75 crore worth

works in Municipal Department, Rs. 120 crore works in Panchayath Raj

Department were allocated to the TDP cadre. As these are the Rs. 10 lakh-

below works, they are also not being audited. As a result, nobody is actually

caring for the quality of those works and a massive corruption is taking place

right under the nose of the government. Despite the protests from

opposition parties, the government is in no mood to look into the problems

of the nomination based work allocation.

The state Vigilance Department has given a report to the government that

funds have been misused in the nominated works in Guntur and Anantapur

districts. As usual, the government binned the report and nomination spree

continues.

The memo that granted 34 works of the

Irrigation Department worth Rs. 13.66 crore on nomination basis.

Rs. 500 crore4 Departments for Party Cadre

The value of the worksthat were allocated on

nomination basis

Rs. 695 crore

75% of it i.e. Rs. 500 crorewas converted into commission

which paid at different levels of

government


Corruption spread its tentacles to each village in Andhra Pradesh after

Chandrababu Naidu became the Chief Minister. The Water and Tree

Scheme that was supposed to preserve the ecological environs has

become a major source of corruption in the state and a source of income

to ruling party cadre. As these works are being allocated on nomination

basis, it has become a scheme of ruling party’s rank and file.

In 2014-15 financial year, Rs. 2444.90 crore worth works were awarded

on nomination basis under this programme. Though the Chief Minister

talks about financial hardships of the state repetitively, the bills of Water

and Tree Scheme are being paid in time, without any delay. During his last

tenure, the Chief Minister took a loan of Rs. 1400 crore from World Bank

for a similar programme and spent at least half of the amount. However,

now, the ruling party cadre are spending only 25% on the works and rest

of the 75% is being used for distribution among the party cadre, leaders

Rs. 1800 croreWater, Tree and Evergreen Favouritism

The value of the Water and

Tree Scheme works that were

allocated on nomination basis is

Rs. 2,444.90 crore.

75 % of it i.e. Rs. 1,800 crorehas been appropriated

by the leaders of the

government and ruling party.

The GO that increased the monetary limit of the works of

Water and Tree Scheme from Rs. 5 lakh to Rs. 10 lakh.


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 theirexpenditure 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


Chandrababu Naidu’s government did not allow the Central

government funds to be spent as per allocation. The central funds of Rs.

1,217 crore were diverted by the AP government and were used for works

of nomination basis. The state government started a new scheme named

‘Wadawadalaa Chandranna Bata’ (which translates into Chandrababu's

road in Every Locality) by appropriating the funds of the Finance

Commission and National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.

In 2015-16 financial year, state government set a target to build 3,043

kilometers rural roads at the cost of Rs. 1,217 crore. Most of these works

were divided into the works of Rs. 5 lakh value and were gifted away to

the TDP men in the villages through the Engineering Division of

Panchayath Raj Department. According to the departmental sources, the

TDP cadre is spending only 25% of the funds and appropriating the

remaining substantial lion's share.

By March 2016, works worth Rs. 685.60 crore were completed and

another Rs. 531.60 crore worth works were yet to be completed. Funds of

the Finance Commission and the NREGS have to be spent under the

supervision of village sarpanches. However, the AP state government

curtailed the rights of local bodies and unethically diverted funds to its

party cadre through nomination method.

While there is an option to take labour component up to 100 %, the

TDP govenrment has confined it to 60 %, bringing down the work days

avialable to the rural poor. As a result, a lot of people are migrating to

other states in search of work.

Rs. 900 croreCentral Funds Misappropriated

The funds released by

the Centre forvillage panchayats

Rs.1,217 crore

75% of it i.e.

Rs. 900 crorehas gone into the

pockets of TDP men


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 agency’s

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.

Rs. 338 croreA Friend in Deed

The GO that allocated 50 acres land to Centrical Solutions,

the company of Lokesh friend Sridhar, in Vizag


Chandrababu government gave away the prime land in temple town

Tirupati at a throwaway price to a company which belongs to the TDP MP

Galla Jayadev. The land is located in Karakambadi on Kadapa-Tirupati

highway and its value is Rs. 43.38 crore. However, the land was given to

Mangal Industries of Galla family at just Rs. 4.88 crore. The 21.69 acres land

patch was given to Mangal Industries at the value of Rs. 22.50 lakh per

acre; the GO no: 430 was issued to this effect by the Revenue Department

on November 12, 2015.

It is very difficult to get land in Karakambadi area, which is very near

to Renigunta Airport, Tirupati and Renigunta railways stations, Tirupati

bus stand and Mangalam bus depot. The market value of the land is Rs.

2.5 crore per acre but the government allocated it for Rs. 22.50 lakh per

acre. Galla Aruna Kumari, a former minister and mother of Galla Jayadev,

could not get this thing done while she was a minister in the united AP

cabinet. However, Chandrababu got it done for her very easily as the Chief

Minster.

Rs. 40 croreGift to Galla Family

The GO that allocated the land to

Mangal Industries, which belongs to Galla family


The misuse of monies of Special Development Fund (SDF) is another

irrefutable proof for the TDP government abuse of public office. The

government was not satisfied with gifting away the liquor shops, lands

and sand reaches; it is also gifting the SDF grants- which are intended for

the development of constituencies- to its party leaders. These funds are

allocated according to the recommendations of local MLAs. However, the

government set aside these regulations to distribute the funds among its

leaders.

While these funds are to be evenly distributed among the MLAs, the

TDP government is making use of the ‘discretion of CM’ provision are and

not granting any funds to the opposition YSRCP MLAs. Wherever there are

opposition MLAs, the SDF grants are being granted to TDP constituency

in-charges and thus the government funds are being converted into

party funds. Even the GOs issued by different departments are also

mentioning the TDP in-charges as the elected MLAs!

The GO issued Rs. 2 crore to Silpa Chakrapani Reddy by mentioning him as

Srisailam MLA, while the actual MLA is Budda Rajasekhar Reddy from YSRCP.

The GO that issued Rs. 2 crore to Tuni Constituency TDP In-chargeYanamala Krishnudu, while the actual MLA is Dadisetty Raja from YSRCP.

Special Development Fund

No More!


SDF has become Kuppam FundMeanwhile, Chandrababu Naidu has converted the SDF into a fund for

his own constituency. Now, the fund is being referred Kuppam Fund,

named after his constituency. Chandrababu government allocated Rs.

500 crore to this fund in the 2015-16 budget. Those funds were supposed

to be allocated to all the MLA constituencies. However, the Chief Minister

can use his discretion to make slight adjustments in the funds allocation.

However, Chandrababu Naidu used a major share of this fund, Rs. 273.50

crore for his own constituency Kuppam.

With the GO 349, the state government allocated Rs. 136.13 crore

funds for the construction of pukka roads in Kuppam constituency. Later

the same constituency got Rs. 137.37 crore for construction of cement

roads in 582 habitats. Thus, the Chief Minister’s constituency got Rs.

273.50 crore SDF grants in a single financial year. This is more than the

amount allocated to the rest of the 174 constituencies put together!

The GO that allocated Rs. 2.1 crore funds to

Dhone constituency Telugu Desam Party In-charge K.E. Prataph

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.

Rs. 10 crore ‘Additional’ to Nellore Barrage


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.

Rs. 214 croreBoon to Vamsadhara Contractors

The ruling TDP leaders made Rs. 100 crore by supplying sub-standard

provisions to people under the ‘Chandranna’s 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!

The GO that issued funds for Chandranna’s Gift scheme

Chandranna’s KanukaRs. 100 Crore


Rs. 200 croreLokesh Deal with MillersIn 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.

The Chief Minister insisted that the Kuppam canal branch works will

be awarded to TDP Kadapa district president, which was against the

existing rules. This decision was resisted by Principal Secretary of Finance

Department P.V. Ramesh. However, the Chief Minister prevailed over him

and gifted the contract worth Rs. 430 crore to his party man. Out of this

amount, the contractor is set to pocket Rs. 120 crore.

Rs. 120 croreKuppam Branch Canal Works only for Cronies

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.

Rs. 25 croreDaylight Robbery in Goddumarri


Chandrababu Naidu is a byword for extravagance. He started

spending the tax payer’s 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 country’s

Prime Minister doesn’t 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.

Following is the list of some of his

profligate spending-

On Charter Planes Rs. 30 crore

On CM office in Hyderabad Rs. 10 crore

On Madinaaguda Farmhouse and rented houses in Jubilee Hills Rs. 5.87 crore

On the special bus Rs. 5.50 crore

On groundbreaking ceremony of the new capital city Rs. 100 crore

On travels of the officials between Hyderabad and Vijayawada Rs. 120 crore

On foreign consultants who have prepared the documents of the capital city Rs. 150 crore

On temporary secretariat Rs. 300 crore

On the master plan of the capital city Rs. 15 crore

Total Rs. 736.37 crore

Babu’s Extravagance Costs the State

Rs. 736 crore


❖ 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.

The GO that allocated the Rs. 10.20 crore forrenovation of the CM’s Camp Office in Vijayawada

Chandrababu Naidu has spent Rs. 45 crore on refurbishing

of CM offices in Hyderabad secretariat and another Rs. 42 crore

on similar facilities in Irrigation Guest House and CM Camp

Office in Vijayawada. The state officials are at a loss why the

government has to spend such whopping amounts or repairs

while new buildings could be built with that that money.


❖ 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.

What if there was no Extravagance?The answer is simple. Andhra Pradesh could have got a permanent

Secretariat with that money. The new state so far has no permanent

building for its Secretariat. Chandrababu Naidu has recently started

constructing a temporary secretariat building and he is spending Rs. 300

crore on it. If he could control his unnecessary spending, he could have

built a permanent, world-class secretariat building.


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 Reddy’s 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.

Public sector ruinedIf you want to kill a dog, first brand it a mad one and then kill it.

Chandrababu applied this formula and killed several public sector units in

the state successfully. He first made them sick and then sold them away

at throwaway prices. While the value of lands of Hyderabad Allwyn was

Rs. 150 crore, Chandrababu sold it away for just Rs. 3 crore. He also ripped

off Nizam Sugars, which offered a supporting system to the farmers since

Nizam’s times. Thus, he sold the public sector units worth of Rs. 636 crore

for Rs. 203 crore. According to some officials who worked in government,

he pocketed a good amount of the money from these transactions.

Scams between 1995-2004Chandrababu Previous regime


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 Minister’s Relief Fund 10


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


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


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

Democracy in Danger!

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.


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 GO’s 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

Vote case. In the recently

concluded election to the

Telangana Legislative Council,

with an intention to get is nominee elected though the TDP

didn’t 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

YSRCP Badvel MLA Thiriveddi JayaramuluJoining in TDP in Presence of CM Chandrababu

Naidu in Vijayawada on February 29, 2016 .


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 Hon’ble 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

Constitution of India, the

Speaker took up the matter for

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

YSRCP MLA from Yerragondapalem Palaparti David

Raju Joining in TDP in Presence Of CM Chandrababu

Naidu in Vijayawada in February 28, 2016.


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

political parties decide to

merge.

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

YSRCP Jaggampet MLA Jyotula Nehru Joining TDP

in Presence of AP CM Chandrababu Naidu in

Vijayawada on April 4, 2016.


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

unconstitutional behavior of

political parties. You may kindly

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 infringed—which

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.

YSRCP MLA Sujaya Krishna Ranga Rao of Bobbili in

Vizianagaram district being inducted into TDP by the

AP CM Chandrababu Naidu on April 20, 2016.


AmaravatiA World Class City or A World Class Scam?

Amaravati-the new Capital city of Andhra Pradesh- is supposed tobe a global city of 21st century. However, today it has become asynonym to a scandal of global standards thanks to the Chief Ministerof the state, N. Chandrababu Naidu. In the name of developing aworld-class Capital city, a world-class real estate scandal worth Rs. 1lakh crore took place. Chandrababu breached the oath of secrecy ashe revealed the details of the location of the capital city to themembers of his coterie. This translates to "Insider trading".

After revealing the location of the Capital, the TDP governmenthas made concerted efforts to bring down the value of the lands inAmaravati region. The government with the help of its media friendspropagated two areas as the prospective locations of the capital cityviz.- Nuzvid or Nagarjuna University area. Fooled by the propaganda,people flocked to these areas. As a result, the land value inAmaravati region came down overnight. Seizing the moment,Chandrababu cronies, his ministers, MLAs, MPs and leaders boughtland in the Amaravati region at throwaway prices duping the localfarmers. After the cronies of Babu have finished the purchases, thecapital declaration came on December 28, 2014, paramounting"Insider trading" breaching "Oath of Secrecy".

This scandal has been brought out by "Sakshi" daily withirrefutable proofs. In the name of land pooling, the governmentgrabbed the fertile lands on which farmers cultivate three crops ayear, while sparing lands belonging to his cronies. In return, thefarmers were supposed to get paltry extent of residential andcommercial plots in their own villages. Now, there is no clue as towhen and where these plots would be given. Indeed, the CM did nottake some lands as they belonged to his men and their benamis.However, he did not spare those lands without a reason, he recievedquid pro quo benefits for his generosity.

Chief Minister did not stop with this, he has "zoned" the entire twodistricts to create demand for the lands of his cronies. Landsbelonging to his cronies were marked in real estate zones whileothers were in "Agri Zones" There is no end to such stories of opencorruption by Chandrababu Naidu. Though experts are of the opinionthat 5000-acre land is enough to build the new Capital, Chandrababuinsists on gathering 34,000 acres for the city. He is taking the landfrom the farmers and handing them over to private players onsettlement basis.

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

Poramboke Lands: These lands are not assessed to revenuerecords and they are outside of the revenueaccounts. These are public lands owned bythe government. When government vacatespeople who were making use of those landsso far, they are not entitled to anycompensation.

Assigned Lands: These are the land holdings that wereassigned to the farmers from the SC, ST andother weaker sections. These are basicallysmall land entitlements, the size of whichvaries from 50 cents to 1 acre in size.

Lanka Lands: These are riverbed lands or those abettingthe river and are cultivable most of the year.These were allocated mostly to the SC andST families and they have become their solesource of livelihood ever since the allocation.

Jirayath Lands: The Jirayath lands are basically dry landsand cultivation on these lands is largelydependent on annual rainfall. These lands areused for cultivating seasonal crops duringthe Kharif and Rabi seasons. The agriculturalsession of the Kharif crops starts from Juneand the agricultural session of the Rabi cropsstarts from September-October.

Jaribu Lands: This is another name for riverbed lands thatare fertile.


The Daylight RobberyAndhra Pradesh people mandated them to build a

world-class Capital city. But, they chose to build theirfortunes. They were supposed to protect the interests

of every stakeholder of the state; however, what they didwas to take care of their own coffers. In the guise of makinga world-class city, Chandrababu Naidu-led Telugu DesamParty (TDP) government made a world-class scam thatrivals the operations of the most sophisticated land mafias.

The TDP leaders misused their privy to the crucialinformation on the location of the future city. Theymanipulated the realty market by spreading misinformationabout the prospective location of the Capital city. Whenpeople were busy at buying lands at other places, the TDPministers, MLAs, MPs, leaders and the son of the ChiefMinister bought lands in the actual capital region andamassed large amounts of personal wealth.

In all, they have purchased about 25,000 acres of land inthe capital city region at throwaway prices. Now, they areliterally sitting on the wealth of Rs. 1 lakh crore. To furthertheir interests, they deployed multiple tactics in a highlycoordinated fashion, made full use of public offices, issuedand altered several Government Orders (from now on GO)and ordinances.

Under the guise of developing a great city, whatChandrababu Naidu-led government has been doing isnothing but a great scandal. Since two years, the Capital cityhasn't moved an inch because the CM and his cabinetmembers are more focused on building their own fortunesand less on the city development.

It is high time that the people of Andhra Pradeshunderstand the frauds of the government- which severelydebilitate people's rights and lives. We have decided to take


up the cause of the common people, whose rights to decentliving and fortune have been snatched away.

Sakshi media group has painstakingly collected theevidence of day-light legal land grabbing by the TDP leadersand published a series of stories under the title -'TheCaptured Capital'. These revelations have stunned thepeople of Andhra Pradesh and sent shockwaves throughthe state government and the ruling party. With this indepthseries, Sakshi has done what no Telugu media entity coulddo so far. It has set a new and unprecedented standard inTelugu journalism.

These stories have laid bare the government's legalplunder by presenting absolutely accurate information whichincludes the names of the leaders and their benamis, thenumber of acres that they bought and the survey numbersof those lands. For making the original face of the ChiefMinister public, Sakshi daily has been targeted by thegovernment. It slapped several cases against the Sakshireporters and desk journalists and harassing them.

The daylight robbery that is taking place in the name ofdeveloping a world class city must be opposed and stoppedbefore it destroys lives of many more farmers. For sure,Sakshi expose has made government's intent of plunderingand cheating people difficult as the public would becomevigilant and oppose such fraudulent mechanisms in future.


The Devil in DetailAmaravati- the new Capital city of Andhra Pradesh state - is supposed

to be a global city of 21st century. However, today it has become asynonym to a scandal of global standards thanks to the Chief Ministerof the state N. Chandrababu Naidu. The multilayered scam began asheads of the government began to 'leak' information to media about

the proposed location of the new Capital. This was nothing but amisinformation campaign aimed at misguiding the people.

The scandal was hatched and incubated by the Chief MinisterChandrababu Naidu, his son Nara Lokesh and a central minister whois very close to them. Several state ministers and MLAs of the rulingparty, aided by their benamis, ably assisted them to execute thepublic scam. By making full use of their public offices, the fraudstershave snatched away about the 25,000-acre land from the gulliblefarmers.

The first thing these scamsters did was to trash the report ofSivaramakrishnan Committee, which has toured the state extensivelyand took several factors into consideration before finalising thelocation of the state Capital. From then onwards, the entire episodeis a series of small and medium size scandals that have become aglobal scam with the involvement of several players.

The following are five phases in which the TDP government andleaders have executed their land grabbing-

Phase -IAP Chief Minister and his cabinet had already made up their mind

to establish the Capital city in Thullur area, which is located inbetween Guntur and Vijayawada. Once they decided on the location,they diverted the attention of the people and realtors from Thullurarea by giving 'media leaks', which projected that other regionsincluding those surrounding Acharya Nagarjuna University andNuzvid mandal were being considered as the prospective locationsfor the capital city.

Their plan did the trick. While most of the people made a beelineto those areas to purchase plots, the Chief Minister and his menbought thousands of acres of land in Thullur area through theirbenamis at throwaway prices. Once the State government revealed


its original intention, several farmers and realtors who bought landsat Nuzvid area incurred heavy losses. On the other hand, the farmersof Amaravati area also incurred losses as they had to part with theirlands for much cheaper prices. Chandrababu and his men, who wereprivy to this information, made at least a lakh crore rupees throughthe real estate transactions.

Phase - IIAfter making a high decibel propaganda about the about-to-come-

up world-class Capital city Amaravati, the state government hasbrought forth a scandalous concept called 'Land Pooling'. Thegovernment has decided to pool 38,737 acres of fertile, multi-cropland from 29 villages of the Capital city region. When the farmersprotested 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 apocalypticatmosphere in the state. They stated that the farmers those whorefuse to part with their lands would be the ultimate losers and scaredthe 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 isvoluntary, the actual process was anything but voluntary. While thegovernment openly used force to collect the lands from severalunwilling farmers, on the other hand, the lands of the CM and hisstooges were fully protected and exempted from land pooling. Forinstance, the capital region border stopped exactly 10 meters awayfrom the Lingamaneni Estates, which belongs to LingamaneniRamesh, a close aid of Chandrababu Naidu. In return, the ChiefMinister received a guest house and company shares from theLingamaneni Group.

Chandrababu Naidu not only gave full protection to the lands ofhis cronies but also made sure that all development projects come upnear their lands. The man who initially announced that entire landpooling was voluntary showed his true colours eventually. Thefarmers who refused to part ways with the land were constantlyharassed by the government. In some instances, the standing crop ofresisiting farmers was burnt down during the midnights by some'unknown miscreants'. The police, in these cases, instead ofsearching for culprits, slapped false cases against the farmers andfurther terrorised them. In some places, the crops and plantations of


farmers were flattened by bulldozers without any prior information tothem. Though the government had disowned these violent acts,everybody knew who were behind these incidents.

The government refused to permit agricultural activities in the 29villages. It actively discouraged agriculture in the Capital regionvillages. When the villagers went to High Court and got the reprieveto cultivate their lands, the government ensured that the farmerscould not access water for irrigation and agricultural loans. Throughthese measures, it effectively sabotaged the court order.

Phase - III

After the 'land pooling', Chandrababu announced a compensationpackage for the farmers in lieu of their lands. He has announcedunspecified cash compensation and residential and commercial plotsfor the farmers. These plots were supposed to be given in thefarmers' own villages. However, eventually, this package has turnedout to be a total farce.

Now, the Chief Minister says that the farmers would be given anannual 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 theyshould not expect the residential plots in their villages. In effect, thefarmers are being asked to relocate on the terms of government. Thegovernment now blames the farmers for their 'greedy expectations'!It is learnt that the plots that are going to be allocated to farmers arelocated in lowlands, which will have the lowest commercial value.The government is also coming up with several restrictions on theconstruction activity in the plots allocated to the farmers. The ChiefMinister, who once promised new houses to all the homeless in theCapital region, however, he hasn't even provided alternative housesto those who lost their homes in the development process of thecapital city.

Phase - IVWhile 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, thegovernment created a wave of propaganda threatening that theselands would be taken back by the government without paying anycompensation to the owners. When the poor farmers sought clarityfrom the TDP leaders and revenue officials, they further terrified the


farmers by telling them that the government had every right to takeback the lands since it was the original owner of the lands.

Thanks to this propaganda, several farmers panicked and soldaway their lands to TDP leaders, who have been brainwashing thefarmers to part ways with the lands for some time. The benamis ofruling party leaders have bought these lands at a rate as low as Rs.5 lakh per acre. Thus, Chandrababu and his stooges have pocketedaway 1,848 acres of assigned and lanka lands in this fashion.

To fuel the fear of the marginalised farmers, the government usedseveral tactics. First of all, it refused to issue the compensationcheques to the tenant farmers of assigned and lanka lands and citedthe various pending litigations as the cause of the delay. Once all theassigned 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 baggedthese lands. Those who bought an acre of land at Rs. 5 lakh rate arenow going to get Rs. 1.90 crore for the same parcel of land.

Phase - VThe zone classification of the Capital region is another scam of

global class. The TDP government has divided the lands of capitalcity region into commercial and agricultural zones and restircted theland use of the latter only to agriculture. This means the value of thelands in agricultural zones is not on par with the value of the lands ofthe commercial zones. Because of this classification, the lands priceshave tanked overnight in many areas. The plot of land which wasonce 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 havestrikingly different prices based on the zones that they have falleninto.

The zone classification information, which was supposed to beconfidential, was leaked to a privileged few, who bought or sold thelands based on the information. Today, the lands of Chandrababuand his stooges are in the high-value commercial zones and lands ofother farmers are in the agricultural zones. Because of thisdifferentiation, the prices of Babus' lands have skyrocketed at thecost of farmers, whose lands have lost their value overnight. Thegovernment is gambling with the lives of the farmers and making akilling out of them.


1. P. NarayanaPosition: The Minister of Municipal Administration,

Urban Planning and Development

Land Purchased : 3,129 acres (including assigned lands)

Amount paid : Rs. 432 crorePresent Value : Rs. 10,000 crore and above

Benamis:

Akula Munisankar: He is an electrician in Narayana MedicalCollege, Nellore, and a distant relative of P. Narayana. He isrelated through marriage to the minister and is a brother-in-law tothe minister.

Ravuri Sambasiva Rao: He is the brother-in-law of P. Narayana andhis 'Man Friday'. Sambasiva Rao is the caretaker of all thefinancial affairs of the minister.

Potturi Prameela: She is a confidant of Narayana and managesNarayana group colleges in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

Apart from these important benamis, several employees ofNarayana group and confidants of the minister bought lands and tookpart in the scam.

Areas of Land Purchase: Mandadam, Lingayapalem, Rayapudi,Uddandarayunipalem, Borupalem of Thullur mandal near CoreCapital region.

Capital Culprits


2. Sujana Chowdary

Position: The Union Minister of State for Scienceand Technology and Earth Sciences

Land Purchased : 700 acresAmount paid : Rs. 35 crorePresent Value : Rs. 700 crore

Benamis:

Yalamanchili Jatin Kumar: Brother of Sujana Chowdary

Sri Kalinga Green Tech Chemicals: This company belongs toHarshananda, 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 Krishnadistrict and Mangalagiri mandal of Guntur district.

3. Nara LokeshPosition: National general secretary of Telugu Desam Party

Son of Chandrababu Naidu

Land Purchased : 500 acresAmount paid : Rs. 50 crorePresent 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 ofAmaravati mandal.


4. Prathipati Pulla RaoPosition: Minister for Agriculture

Land Purchased : 196 acres (including assigned lands)

Amount paid : Rs. 39 crorePresent 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.

5. Ravela Kishore BabuPosition: Minister for SC, ST Welfare and

Empowerment

Land Purchased : 55 acres (including assigned lands)

Amount paid : Rs. 5.5 crorePresent Value : Rs. 82.5 crore

Benamis:

Ravela Santi Jyothi: Wife of Ravela Kishore BabuMaitri Infra: A company of Tella Srinivasarao, a confidant of Ravela

Kishore Babu

Areas of Land Purchase: Kuragallu and Navuluru of Mangalagirimandal.

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.


7. Kommalapati SridharPosition: MLA of PedakurapaduLand Purchased : 42 acres

Amount paid : Rs. 1. 26 crore


Areas of Land Purchase: Lands adjacent toAmaravati Township at Yerrabalem village.

These lands were exempted from the land pooling and Nara Lokeshgot the shares in the venture as quid pro quo .

8. Kodela Siva Rama Krishna Position: Son of AP speaker Kodela Siva Prasad Rao

Land Purchased : 17.3 acres

Amount paid : Rs. 93 lakh

Present Value : Rs. 18.4 crore

BenamiSasi Infra: This company belongs to Siva Rama Krishna’s personal

assistant Gutta Naga Prasad

Area of Land Purchase: Dhulipalla of Sattenapalli mandal

9. Dhulipalla Narendra ChowdaryPosition: MLA of PonnurLand Purchased : 3.89 acres

(another 50 acres unofficially)

Encroachment of rivulet poramboke


Benami: Devara Pulliah: A close relative of Dhulipalla Narendra ChowdaryArea of Land Encroachment: Nambur


10. Payyavula Keshav Position: Ruling party MLC

Land Purchased : 4.09 acres

Amount paid : Rs. 12.27 lakh


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

11. Lingamaneni Ramesh Position: A confidant of CM N. Chandrababu NaiduLand Purchased : 804 acres

Profit : Rs 4,000 crore

He has purchased 168 acres at the price ranging between Rs. 10lakh and Rs. 40 lakh and clubbed them into a single estate.

The entire Lingamaneni Estates has been exempted from landpooling. The border of the capital region has stopped in Kaza villagejust 10 meters away to Lingamaneni Estates.

In return, Chandrababu Naidu has got Lingamaneni Guest Houseand Lokesh was given shares in Lingamaneni Estates. About 300acres of land of poor farmers has been encroached upon andclubbed into Lingamaneni Estates.

12. M.S.P. Rama Rao Position: An in-law of Balakrishna –

Land : He was allocated 498. 83 acres

Amount paid : Rs. 4.98 crore

Present Value : Rs.300 crore

The lands were allocated in Jayanthipuram of Jaggayyapetamandal to Visakha Bottling Company Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd.

Jaggayyapeta was brought under the range of the CRDA toenhance the value of these lands.


Director: Babu / Actors: Benamis● While Chandrababu is the

director of this drama, Lokeshis its producer.

● Capital city lands weresnatched away by the croniesof Babu and their benamis.

● Narayana, Sujana Chowdary,Murali Mohan, Prathipati PullaRao, Devineni UmamaheswaraRao, Ravela Kishore Babu…quite a few cronies have benefittedfrom the real estate transactions that were made possible due tothe informational advantage they got.

● Narayana (3,600 acres), Sujana Chowdary (700 acres), NaraLokesh (500 acres), Prathipati Pulla Rao (196 acres) haveprofited in thousands of crores of rupees.

● Amaravati, the new Capital city of Andhra Pradesh state, issupposed to be a global city of 21st century. However, today it hasbecome a byword for a major scam of global standards thanks tothe Chief Minister of the state, N. Chandrababu Naidu.

All started with Media Leaks● Sivaramakrishnan Committee

recommendations on the location ofCapital city have been ignored.

● Lies were propagated through themedia which said that the new Capitalwill come around Nuzvid area. Thiscreated a real estate buzz in that

A World Class ScamA Perfect Drama of an

Opportune Legal Plunder


area. As a result, the land prices in Amaravati area plummeted.

● When realtors were busy buying plots in Nuzvid area, Babu andhis company purchased huge tracts of land at throwaway prices.

● Once the true location of the capital city announced, the gulliblerealtors who bought the land around Nuzvid area incurred heavylosses. The farmers who sold their lands in Amaravati arearealised that they were trapped.

● By then, Chandrababu, his stooges and their benamis made akilling and earned above Rs. 1 lakh crore.

Babu Promises, then Fails

● To entrap the farmers of Capital region, Chandrababu madeseveral false promises.

● He boasted that he was going to build aworld-class capital city.

● He promised to waive off the farm loans up toRs. 15 lakh for the farmers of capital cityregion. But, later, he backtracked from hispromise and even commented that, "Farmerscannot get this greedy. When did I tell them that I would waiveoff all the farm loans? I did it whatever I was supposed to do."

● He promised a monthly pension of Rs. 2,500 to tenant farmersand farm labourers of the capital region, but nobody has got thepension so far.

● Chandrababu promised skill training and jobs to the unemployedyouth of the capital region. He got them trained by a namelesscompany and finally told them that there were no jobs.

● Many a time, he said that not even a single village would beremoved; now three villages are going to be wiped out.

● He promised fee reimbursement to all the students, but not evena single student received the reimbursement so far.

Land Pooling is a Scandal of Global Scale

● Chandrababu has implemented a major scandalcalled 'Land Pooling' for the capital city.

● He decided to collect 38,737 acres fertile, multi-crop land from 29 villages.


● Initially, many framers refused to part ways with the land, theirsole source of livelihood.

● To trick the reluctant farmers, Chandrababu used several tactics.He made benamis of his party leaders voluntarily offer their 5000acres of land. He then used his media friends to createpropaganda that the farmers who refuse to surrender their landswould be the ultimate losers. This did the trick. The governmentand its media could make the farmers cede their lands.

● He also used the caste card to 'pool' the land. He divided theresisting farmers on caste lines by sending the ministers fromthe respective castes to counsel the farmers and finally theywere made to give away their lands.

● Though the government said the land pooling was a voluntaryprocess, it was anything but voluntary. While the governmentopenly used force to collect the lands from reluctant farmers, thelands of Babu and his cronies were fully protected from thepooling. For instance, the capital region limit stopped exactly 10meters away from the Lingamaneni Estates, which belongs toLingamaneni Ramesh, a close aid of Chandrababu Naidu. As areturn gift, the Chief Minister got a palace-like gurst house andshares in Lingamaneni Estates.

● Babu not only ensured full protection of the lands of his croniesand their benamis but also ensured that the developmentprojects are established near their lands.

Compensation - an Open Fraud

● Chandrababu announced the cashcompensation and two plots of land (oneresidential and one commercial), foreach acre of land given by the farmers.Now, there is no clarity as to the locationof the plots or the time frame withinwhich the allocation will be completed.

● He went on altering the the compensation package and finallysaid he would give an annual amount of Rs. 50,000 or Rs.30,000 for 10 years period based on the type the landsurrendered to the cause. Taking advantage of the supposedambiguity on the differences between dry lands and fertile 'jaribu'lands, the government is creating further entanglements indeciding the status of the lands to delay the paymentcompensation.


● He initially promised to give residential and commercial plots tothe farmers in their own villages. After completion of the landpooling, Chandrababu is asking how the farmers can expect tobe rehabilitated in the same village.

● He then promised to provide housing to each houseless family inthe Capital city region. However, he hasn't provded alternativehousing even to those who lost their houses during theinauguration of the Capital city.

● Chandrababu told the farmers that the residential andcommercial plots that would be given to them will value a lot andthey could become millionaires overnight once they own theplots. However, now farmers are being allocated plots inlowlands areas, which have a very little commercial value.

● Chandrababu promised to give first preference to the residentialand commercial buildings of farmers.The government is nowcoming up with several restrictions on the construction ofbuildings in commercial and residential areas.

Cases, Threats and Harassment

● Chandrababu- who initially told that entire land pooling was avoluntary process - showed his true colours eventually.

● The farmers who refused to partways with the lands were constantlyharassed by the government. Insome cases, the standing crop offarmers unwilling to surrender theirlands was set afire. The police, inthese cases, instead of identifyingand arresting the culprits slappedfalse cases against the farmers and silenced.

● In some places, the crops and plantations of farmers wereflattened by bulldozers without any advance notice. Manyfarmers were unable to identify their land plots and could onlyweep at their plight.

● The government also refused to give permission for the farmersto practice agriculture in the 29 villages in the Capital region.This was done to discourage the culture of agriculture in theregion. When the villagers approached the High Court and weregranted the permission, the state government denied themaccessing irrigation facilities and agricultural loans. The

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government did not permit soil fertility tests as well.

Dalits Assigned Lands Taken Away

● The lands of Dalits were robbed off systematically.

● First, the government created apropaganda that the government wasgoing to take away lands assigned toDalits without paying them anycompensation.

● Dalit farmers who were worried aboutsuch possibility were further persuaded by the TDP leaders andwere finally made to yield their lands at a rate starting from Rs 5lakh per acre. Chandrababu and his cronies pocketed about1,848 acres of assigned and lanka lands in this fashion.

● Once all the assigned and lanka lands were secured by the CMand his party men, a generous compensation package wasannounced for surrendering those lands. The package benefitteda lot of TDP leaders who have bagged these lands. Those whobought an acre of land at Rs. 5 lakh is now going to get Rs. 1.90crore for the same!

At the end…In the name of Capital city, Chandrababu and hiscronies have made about Rs. 1 lakh crore. The stategovernment has organized three inaugural ceremoniesfor the capital city. The state government's lacklusterefforts have not found much favour with the centralgovernment. Prime Minister Modi attended thecommencement ceremony and he was expected toannounce a package. Instead of the package, giventhe sad effort put by the state government, he gavestate four pots filled with mud.

Emperor of Corruption


The new Capital of Andhra Pradesh is in the clutches of landvultures, who are holding the high offices in the government. Not justa few, but the quite a lot of TDP leaders under the guidance ofChandrababu Naidu attacked the capital city and got substantialamounts of lands registered in their names, or of their benamis.Chandrababu Naidu concealed the decision that was taken in the firstcabinet 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 whichspread the rumour that the government was going to take awayassigned lands without paying any compensation. The enterprisingparty leadership used all means at its disposal and succeeded inmaking the farmers give up their lands. Thus, they bought 25,000acres land in 29 villages, which are now part of the new Capitalregion, at very low rates.

Once the location of Capital region was announced, the prices ofthe lands in Amaravati area skyrocketed overnight. An acre of landwhich was bought at Rs 4 lakh is now valued at Rs. 4 crore. This isthe story of Chandrababu and Company. who pocketed Rs. 1 lakhcrore through a scandal that is larger than any major scam in thehistory of Independent India. What is presently known is only the tipof the iceberg!

The

Captured

Capital


The Chief Minister's son Nara Lokesh took on himself to executethe Capital scam. He purchased huge tracts of land through hisbenami Dr. Vemuri Ravi Kumar Prasad. They purchased the land inseveral places in the names of different companies. Initially, theyentered into agreements with the farmers and completed theregistrations once the location of the Capital was announced. Here isthe story of Nara Lokesh aka 'China Babu' who successfully fooledthe people by abusing his position!

500 Acres of ForesightBefore the first

statement on the locationof the Capital region wasannounced on September4, 2015, Lokesh boughtseveral acres of land nearCore Capital regionthrough Vemuri RaviKumar Prasad. InAmaravati mandal, hisbenami could purchase atotal of 500 acres. InDharanikota village, thelands of survey numbers 59/A2/1, 59/A2/2A, 59/A2/2B1, 59/A2/3A,59/A/2, 59/B, 61/1A were bought by him. In Vaikuntapuram village ofthe same mandal, lands belonging to 25 survey numbers werebought by Dr. Vemuri and his wife Anuradha for Goshpadi GreenFields Pvt. Ltd., Future Space India Pvt. Ltd., Net India Pvt. Ltd.,among others. They agree to pay between Rs. 5 lakh to Rs. 9 lakhper acre and gave token advances to the farmers. On August 5,

Nara Lokesh and his Benami Inc.

Benamis: Vemuri Ravi KumarPrasad and Vemuri Anuradha Purchased Land: 500 acresAmount Paid: Rs. 50 crorePresent Value: Rs. 650 crore

The land that is purchased athigher rate than that of market in the

name of Vemuri Ravi Kumar.


2015, they went ahead with registrations against the payment ofremaining 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 hemade after the TDP came to power. In Dharanikota andVaikuntapuram, the land price which Dr. Vemuri and his wifepurchased lands for different companies, was priced between Rs. 7lakh to Rs. 12 lakh per acre. However, they declared that the valueof an acre of a land was Rs. 71,20,108. They inflated the originalprice 10 times during the registration. Thus, they converted theirblack money into white.

Who is this Ravi Kumar? Mr. Ravi Kumar is none other than the

brother of Vemuri Hari Krishna, who has ahistory of stealing Electronic VotingMachines (EVMs) and tampering with them.Hari Krishna was also the in-charge of thesocial media campaign of TDP during the2014 elections. He holds a key position inHeritage Foods and the TDP. OnceChandrababu came into power, Hari

Krishna was appointed as a member of E-governance Authority,Electronics and IT Agency, and Innovation Society. He was also themember of the Assessment and Supervision Committee for thetenders of the first phase of the Rs. 333 crore worth Fiber Gridproject. Ravi Kumar also coordinated the U.S. tour of Chandrababu,which took place before the 2014 elections. Once Chandrababucame into power, Ravi Kumar was appointed as Government Advisor(Non-resident Telugus' Affairs and Investments) on September 9,2015. Now, Ravi Kumar has bought 500 acres of land.

The GO of AP Government that shows the appointmentof Vemuri Ravi Kumar Prasad as the Government Advisor

(Non-resident Telugus' Affairs and Investments)


Sujana Chowdary’sLand Robbing

Benamis: Sri Kalinga Green TechChemicals and Y. SivaRamakrishnaPurchased Land: 700 acresAmount Paid: Rs. 35 crorePresent Value: Rs. 700 crore

He is a 'corporate politician' and member of the CM's coterie. Heis specialised in securing huge loans amounting to hundreds ofcrores of rupees and successfully defaulting on their repayments.Impressed with his prowess, Chandrababu Naidu not only made hima member of Rajya Sabha, but also secured him a berth in Mr. Modi'scabinet. He is none other than the Union Minister of State forScience, Technology and Earth Sciences Mr. Y. SatyanarayanaChowdary aka Sujana Chowdary. He defaulted on the repayment ofRs. 100 crore to different banks and bought 700 acres in Amaravatiregion with that money. He is also putting his best efforts to encroachupon another 130 acres of forest land in Krishna district.

Brother’s PA is BenamiMr. Harshananda, the

personal assistant ofYalamanchili Jatin Kumar,brother of Sujana Chowdary,started a company named SriKalinga Green TechChemicals. The 126.44 acresland in Gudimetla village ofChandarlapadu mandal ofKrishna district was bought inthe name of this company.The land is located in thesurvey numbers of 399-7,402-1A, 403-4, 5, 6, 404-1, 5,6, 9B, 11, 12, 410-2, 412,413, 415, 416, 417,-4, 427, 428-1, 2, 429, 431, 432-1, 433, 434 and437 at the rate of Rs. 5 lakh per acre. Now, the value of an acre of

The documents of land purchased byCentral minister Sujana Chowdary inGudimetla of Kanchikacherla mandal.


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 thetune of Rs. 56.89 crore. Besides this land, Sujana Chowdary hastargeted another 130 acres of forest land, which is adjacent to hisland plots. Now, he is practically encroaching that land. TheGudimetla villagers are complaining that the men appointed bySujana Chowdary are restricting their movement into the forest lands,which is a clear indication of encroachment efforts.

Unstoppalbe ExploitationSujana 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 andanother 3.5 acres of land (Survey No: 41) in the name of his brotherY. Siva Rama Krishna. He also bought 3.60 acres of land of surveynumber 116/3 at Keesara.

Mr. Chowdary used the same modus operandi to buy 700 acresof land in the mandals of Chandarlapadu, Kanchikacherla andVeerullapadu in Krishna district and Mangalagiri mandal of Gunturdistrict. After the Capital region scandal came out, he stated that hebought land because he had the money and questioned what'swrong with that! This statement of him clearly indicates that he wasprivy to critical information about the location of the capital regionbefore it was made public.

Jayabheri group, the real estate company started by film actionand present MP of TDP Murali Mohan came to limelight in the late90s. The group could start a lot of ventures around the then boomingHitec City in Hyderabad. It was possible because of mentorship of

Murali MohanThe Real Benami

Purchased Land: 53 acres

Amount Paid: Rs. 16 crore

Present Value: Rs. 212 crore


TDP president and then CM of united Andhra Pradesh ChandrababuNaidu. Now, the group is once again being patronised byChandrababu Naidu in the new Capital city region.

Adjacent to Core Capital…Murali Mohan who benefitted from huge real estate projects in

Hyderabad is now focusing on the Kolkata-Chennai Highway nearthe new Capital city. The Jayabheri group is all set to start aresidential project in about 2.775 hectors (about 7 acres) land atKunchanapalle village of Tadepalle mandal. The venture is located onthe land that is in eight survey numbers including 81/3C, 80/4B and81/2, next to the national highway and is very near to Core Capitalregion.

On behalf of Jayabheri, Yarlagdda Ravi Kiran, Geetanjali, NikhilAditya, Sridheera and Best Fortune Company entered into anagreement with the land owners. The CRDA officials hurriedly issuedpermissions to Jayabheri's project on July 21, 2015, at the CM'sbehest. The group has already sold more than half of the flats fromthis project to non-resident Indians. Murali Mohan also purchasedanother 53 acres of land nearby this project at the cost of Rs. 30 lakhper acre. It is learnt that he is going to use this land to build starhotels, shopping malls and a convention centre.

The MoU of Jayabheri Group forconstruction of residential flats.


The AP Social Welfare Minister Mr. Ravela Kishore Babu hascompeted with his cabinet colleagues in purchasing assigned andlanka lands. While others were buying lands through benamis, theminister has bought the land directly in the name of his wife RavelaSanthi Jyothi. In this process, he breached the A.P. Assigned Lands(Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977.

In the Capital region, most of the assigned lands belong to Dalitfarmers. By targeting the assigned lands, Ravela has doneirreversible injustice to his Dalit brethren. To induce panic among theDalit farmers, the government spread the rumour that thegovernment would take back the lands assigned without paying anycompensation. This information terrified the Dalits, who then resortedto a distress sale of their lands. They sold their lands at a price whichranged from Rs. 10 lakh to Rs. 15 lakh per acre.

A Dalit farmer named Tenali Rubenu had 83 cents assigned land(Survey No: 563/3) and it was his only source of livelihood. Ravela

Ravela…Traitor of Dalits

Benami: Wife of the Minister RavelaSanthi Jyothi Purchased Land: 55 acresAmount Paid: Rs. 5.5 crorePresent Value: Rs. 82.5 crore


This is the heights of abuse of public office by the Chief MinisterChandrababu Naidu. He allocated 498.93 acres land atJayanthipuram village of Jaggayyapeta mandal to a company whichbelongs to M.S.P. Rama Rao, a reletive of Mr. Balakrishna, who isbrother-in-law to Chandrababu Naidu and also a TDP MLA. Mr.Rama Rao is the son of former TDP MP M.V.V.S. Murthy andBalakrishna's second daughter was recently married to the son ofRama Rao.

The land allocated to Mr. Rao's company VBC Fertilizers andChemicals Ltd. is worth about Rs. 300 crore, however, it wasallocated for Rs. 4.98 crore. Chandrababu Naidu broughtJaggayyapeta town under the purview of the CRDA with the soleobjective of augmenting the value of land allocated to Mr. Rao. Anorder was issued to this effect on September 22, 2015.

Rs. 295 Crore Dowry Balakrishna’s Son-in law

Kishore Babu bought this land and got it registered in the name of hiswife Ravela Santhi Jyothi on August 5, 2015 in Mangalagiri Sub-registrar office. He also got GPA on 25 acres of assigned lands. Hebought another 0.75 acres of land (Survey No: 613/2) through acompnay named Maitri Infra. This company is owned by Mr. TellaSrinivasa Rao, a confidant of Mr. Kishore Babu. The registration tookplace on October 16, 2015. It is learnt that Ravela Kishore Babubought a total of 55 acres of both assigned lands and patta lands.

The GO thatbrought

Jaggayyapetaunder CRDA

purview after twomonths of the

land allocation.

The GO that shows theallocation of 498.83

acres of land inJaggayyapeta mandal

to Balakrishna's in-law,who is a benami to

Chandrababu.


The Agriculture Minister Prathipati Pulla Rao has been aggressivein going after the assigned lands of Dalits. He first threatened theDalits that their assigned lands won't qualify for compensation underland pooling scheme. When they panicked, he purchased assignedlands paying between Rs. 10 lakh to Rs. 20 lakh per acre. Using theloopholes in the land laws, he got some lands registered in hisbenamis' names and got GPA for other lands.

Foresight in Every StepSince the beginning of land pooling process in the Capital region,

the minister was fully focused on acquiring as much land as possible.He toured the villages extensively during the land pooling processand developed a very good rapport with village sarpanches and localTDP leaders during this time. He gathered the data of poor familieswhich possessed assigned lands and their financial conditionsthrough his contacts. With a concentrated efforts, he could buy theassigned lands from these families with the help of his local TDPleaders at the price ranging between Rs. 10 lakh to Rs. 20 lakh peracre.

The minister bought a total of 196.4 acres of assigned lands in thefollowing villages and survey numbers: the lands of survey numbers293, 294, 295, 296, 379 in Venkatapalem village of Thullur mandal;the land of survey number 454 in Mandadam village, the lands ofsurvey numbers 115 and 94 in Uddandarayunipalem and the lands ofsurvey numbers 377, 386 in Rayapudi village. He got these landsregistered in the name of Guduru Suresh. He got GPAs for another100 acres in the name of Venigalla Raja Reddy and his wifeVenkaayamma.

Who is this Gummadi Suresh?Gummadi Suresh is the owner of a famous clothes store in

Assigned Lands inPrathipati’s Account

Land Purchased: 196 acres

Amount Paid: Rs. 39 crore

Present Value: Rs. 784 crore


Quid pro quo withLingamaneni

The lanka land purchased by Gummadi Suresh, a confidantof Prathipati Pulla Rao

Bandar Road of Vijayawada. He was a partner in the the minister'scotton business. However, Suresh is not financially strong enough tobuy 96.4 acres of assigned land. It is also impossible to get theassigned lands registered in his name. It was the pressure from theminister that got the work done.

The Chief Minister, who grabbed fertile, multi-crop lands from thefarmers for the sake of Capital region, did not take a single yard ofland from his benamis. The fact that the Lingamaneni Estate islocated just 10 meters away from the capital region's limits provesCM's bias. In return, Lingamaneni Ramesh gifted the CM a guesthouse that was built on the riverbed, breaching all environmental

Pole of Capital Region Limit Lingamaneni Estate

Distance 10 Meters


sanctions. It is also an open secret that CM family has shares inLingamaneni Estate. Can anybody give a better example for quid proquo than the CM protecting the lands of private persons andaccepting gifts in return?

Closeness of Babu and Lingamaneni

Lingamaneni Estates Director Lingamaneni Ramesh Babu is oneof the close confidants of Chandrababu. It was learnt that he hadarranged a special flight to Chandrababu's family for their foreign tripafter the general elections. Lingamaneni family members and groupcompanies have bought 632 acres of land in Kaza village ofManagalagiri mandal and Kanteru village of Tadikonda mandal inJune 2014. When the CM Chandrababu and Union Minister for UrbanDevelopment M. Venkaiah Naidu gave statements that the Capitalwas going to come between Guntur and Vijayawada, Rameshlobbied with the Chief Minister for change of the location.

Rs 4,000 crore Profit to Lingamaneni

Once the deal was finalised with Lingamaneni, Babu gave clarityon the location of Capital region. Then Lingamaneni bought another168 acres of land between June 8 and September 4 of 2014 at therate of Rs. 10 lakh to Rs 40 lakh per acre. He converted the 804.32acres of land that is adjacent to Kaza and Kanteru villages into anestate and stopped the movement of people. He erected a fence,installed check posts and enforced electronic surveillance throughCCTV cameras.

TDP leaders themselves openly accept that the CM's family hasgot shares in Lingamaneni Estate. The Chief Minister in tandemmade sure that not even a cent of Lingamaneni Group lands aretaken in the land pooling. The limits of land pooling stopped inNidamarru village, which is adjacent to Lingamaneni Estate. Thelimits of CRDA ended 10 meters away from the lands of the Estate.The prices of flats in Lingamaneni Estate have gone up overnight dueto its proximity to the Capital region. Now the value of an acre of landon this estate is around Rs. 5 crore, this effectively meansChandrababu benefitted Lingamaneni Ramesh to the tune of Rs.4,000 crore. The CRDA Master Plan was devised in such a way thatnot an inch land of Lingamaneni Group was touched.


This is Real Quid Pro QuoThe 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 statementthat the new Capital will come at Thullur village. For this coordinateddelay of the final statement, some shares of Lingamaneni Groupwere transferred to the CM's family members. Besides that, the guesthouse that was built on the banks of River Krishna without anypermissions 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 ChiefEngineer of Roads and Buildings Department objected to a proposalto fix electric appliances worth Rs. 2.27 crore in the building, thegovernment was left with no option but to issue a GO converting theillegal guest house into 'temporary official guest house' on December25. Even TDP sources admit that this is a real quid pro quotransaction.

800 Acres land exempted from pooling Lingamaneni group was first formed by Lingamaneni

Agro Developers Pvt. Ltd. and Lingamaneni Info City Pvt.Ltd. Then, they were converted into Lingamaneni Estate.Lands were purchased in Kaza, Nidamarru and Kanteruvillages in the names of Lingamaneni family membersLingamaneni Poorna Bhaskara Rao, Lingamaneni SwarnaKumari, Lingamaneni Ramesh, Lingamaneni Sumana andLingamaneni Prasanthi.

The Survey Numbers of Lands

Purchased by Lingamaneni Group

●● Lingamaneni Info City Pvt. Ltd: Account No: 100039, SurveyNos: 221-1B, 219-2, 297, 286-2, 298, 356-B, 360, 365, 366, 368-B and 375-C.

●● Lingamaneni Agro Developers Pvt. Ltd: Account No: 100126,Survey Nos: 163-3, 187/B, 226-2, 257-A3, 260-A, 260-B, 260-C,


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: AccountNo: 2372, Survey Nos: 372-2A, 372-A.

Besides these, Lingamaneni Ramesh-in the position of theDirector of White City Projects International Pvt. Ltd.- boughtseveral acres of land belonging to survey numbers of 3350,3009, 2900, 4893, 4526, 4117, 64/79/2014, 2801, 2237, 2057.He also bought lands in Kaza village which are in the surveynumbers of 219/2, 365 and 221/18.


The capital city land scandal is ubiquitous. One doesn't need a deepinvestigation to obtain the evidence for the involvement of the CMand his cronies, it is just out there. Thousands of farmers wouldn'thave lost their livelihoods and their prospective fortunes if the rulingparty was fair to them. The cronies of Chandrababu and theirbenamis abused their power and wrecked havoc in the lives of the

One Bit, One Bit, One Bit, One Bit, One Bit, One Bit, One Bit, One Bit, One Bit, One Bit, One Benami

Sufficient proof for capital land robbing

Purchase Land: 3,129 acres

Amount Paid: 432 acres

Present Value: Rs. 10,000 crore


farmers of new Capital area. This scandal was scripted and directedby Chandrababu Naidu under the guise of developing a world-classcity 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 cents…howsoever small the land bit was, he bought theland. These land bits are bought in the names of his employees,relatives and even of domestic maids. The minister now has afootprint in all 29 villages of the Capital region. The CM ChandrababuNaidu was so impressed with Narayana's penchant for land andentrusted the complete responsibility of the Capital region to him.Thus, Narayana became the head of all TDP leaders and MLAs inCapital region affairs.

Narayana..Narayana

The Municipal Adminstration and Urban Development Minister, P.Narayana, who is an important mandarin in the affairs of Capitalregion, is active in purchasing lands across the region. Until 2014,Narayana was known as the owner of a large education group. Hegot his presnt MLC and Minister positions because of his heavydonations to the TDP during the 2014 elections. Impressed with hisprowess, Chandrababu Naidu stripped the powers of RevenueMinister and gave the charge of the Capital region affairs toNarayana.

As part of his 'duties', Narayana toured the Capital regionextensively and conducted several grama sabhas. With the help ofthe Sarpanches and TDP leaders, he gathered full details aboutassigned and lanka lands. Through them, he spread the rumors thatthe government was going to wrest the assigned and lanka landswithout compensating the farmers. When the farmers panicked, hesent his army of benamis across the Capital region and bought land,notwithstanding its location and size. He bought 3,129 acres in the


Magic in bits The land that was purchased in the name of Avula Munisankar

The land that was purchased in thename of Ravuri Sambasiva Rao

The land purchased in the name of Prameela


name of his benamis at the cost per acre ranging between Rs. 10lakh and Rs. 15 lakh. As the landholdings are smaller in this region,he even bought a plot of 25 cents.

Total of 3,129 acresNarayana displayed all his craftiness and experience in the

Capital land purchases. Initially, he paid only Rs. 2 lakh per acre andmade the secret agreements with the farmers in the name of hisbenamis. Narayana paid the remaining amount and got the GPA ofthose lands transferred to his benamis only after Chandrababudeclared that the government would acknowledge ownership rightsto the most recent owners of the lands. This statement wasparticularly important for the assigned and lanka lands. Finally, thoselands were registered in the names of several of his employees andrelatives. To ensure secrecy, he made use of representation systemof online registration. In this format of registration, the seller doesn'tneed to see the buyers directly and farmers did not even know whothe 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 ofRs. 2.25 crore from Nootaki Narasimha Naidu, according to thevillagers. While the government rate is Rs. 6 lakh per acre, theregistration documents says that he showed that the land bought theland for Rs. 9 lakh. Likewise, Munisankar bought 0.37 acre from(Survey No: 15/1) from Borugadda Ramprakash in Mandadam; 0.56acre (Survey No: 109/1) from Bodipudi Venkataramana inLingayapalem; 0.45 acre (Survey No: 140/A) from Kottapalli RadhaRani in Lingayapalem; 0.28 acre (Survey No: 188) from KottapalliRadha Rani in Lingayapalem; 0.75 acre (Survey Nos: 119/A, 119/F)from Shaik Hasraf Unnisa and others in Rayapudi; 0.87 acre (SurveyNos: 354/1A, 354/1B) from Lambu Venkateswarlu and 0.25 acre(Survey No: 360/1) from Velagaleti Ramadevi. Thus, he purchasedabout 30 acres in bits and pieces.

Minister's brother-in-law Ravuri Samabasiva Rao bought about0.32 acre (Survey No: 465/3B) in Mandadam and in total he hasbought about 29 acres of land. Potturi Prameela bought 15 acres andthe modus operandi was the same. She bought 0.98 acre (SurveyNos: 51/B, 51/C), 0.45 acre (Survey No: 95/C) inUddandarayanipalem, which is near to Thullur.

However, none of them actually have the financial wherewithal to


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 Sakshithat 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 landpooling scheme. Hence, Narayana mainly focused on this village. Hebought about 50 acres assigned land in that village alone. He boughtanother 50 acres of lanka land in the Rayapudi lankas between thesurvey numbers of 250 and 400. Tokala Peturu, Tokala Ankulu,Mendem Nageswara Rao, Mendem Koteswara Rao, BulleddulaChinnappa, Valaparla Ramaiah, Laalaadi Aadeyya, Laladi SundaraRao from Borupalem and Rayapudi villages told Sakshi that they soldthe lands to Narayana and handed over their land documents to hisbenamis. It is learnt that Narayana was behind the government orderto give residential and commercial plots at the same to all those whogave their lands. According to the senior official, Narayana will get aminimum of 400 acres of land in the Capital region.

Avula MunisankarHe is a distant relative of the minister and worked as acontract lecturer for four years in VRC College, Nellore.Munisankar was given the electric works of NarayanaMedical College after Narayana became a minister.College sources said that they don't have anyinformation of Munisankar and he would directly take

money from Narayana when he needed. He is from a middle-classfamily and lives in a rented apartment near Narayana MedicalCollege. How such a small-time employee could buy lands worthcrores of rupees is the question that needs to be answered.

Ravuri Sambasiva RaoHe is the own brother-in-law of Narayana and takes care of most

of his personal and financial affairs. Nellore residents said thatNarayana bought a good number of assets in the name of SambasivaRao. Narayana has purchased the lands in the Capital region onceagain in his name.

Potturi PrameelaShe manages Narayana Colleges in Karnataka and

Tamil Nadu. She belongs to a middle-class family. Howcould she purchase several acres of land in the Capitalregion without having a strong financial background?

The Three Benamis


The collusion betweenthe realtors and the headsof the government createda conducive atmospherefor this high-volumecorruption. After acceptingheavy bribes, the heads ofthe AP governmentapproved a real estateventure that has come upon the assigned lands ofDalits. Here are thedetails.

A real estate companynamed RamakrishnaHousing Pvt. Ltd. came upwith a venture on 179.54acres of land, which islocated behind AcharyaNagarjuna University andadjacent to Kolkata-Chennai National HighWay. This venture is in therange of Kaza village ofNambur mandal.

It has bought 94 acresin Kaza village surveynumbers between 78 and107 and acquiredremaining 76 acres from poor farmers. In this process, the companyhas acquired 54 acres of assigned lands. Though these lands couldnot be registered, the company bribed the officials of Peda Kakani

Rama... Rama…Krishna… Krishna

Real Estate Venture: 179.54 acresAssigned Lands: 54 acres

Some of the farmers ofNambur village who sold their

assigned lands toRamakrishna Housing Pvt. Ltd.

Name Land Sold (In acres)

Namburu Vijaya Bhaskar 2.00Namburu Subbamma 1.65Matangi Subbamma 0.30Namburu Chinna 1.00Matangi Maarthamma 0.30Namburu Maha Lakshmaiah 3.00Kolakaluri Sambaiah 0.30Namburu Raju 1.00Kokkalgadda Ruthamma 1.50Bulla Aarogyam 0.30Namburu Slaman 0.30Namburu Rosaiah 1.00Namburu Yohanu 1.00Namburu Koteswaramma 0.50Namburu Subba Rao 0.50Chilaka Nagewara Rao 0.60Namburu Yohanu 0.70Namburu Nagendram 1.00Nambur Aadeiah 2.00


Sub-registrar office and got the lands registered. Since, there was noobjection from the Registration Office; the Vijayawada-Guntur-Tenali-Mangalagiri (VGTM) Urban Development Authority gave thenecessary permissions for commercial development on those lands.The company started selling villas and plots within no time with thehelp 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 thescene after the announcement and started threatening the realtycompany that its land could be taken in the pooling process as theventure bought a considerable amount of assigned lands.

The bullied company worked out a compromise with the rulingparty. A central minister facilitated the deal. As a result, the companywas completely backed by the government. Then the company whichinitially 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 farmersunder the leadership of David, a farmer from Nambur, complainedabout the existence of assigned lands in the venture to Guntur districtCollector. However, this inquiry produced no result and there areallegations that government suppressed the probe at the behest ofNara Lokesh, who in turn received a huge share in the venture. WhenSakshi sought the explanation from Mangalagiri Tehsildar on thisissue, she confirmed that there were canals and poramboke lands inthat venture.

Land purchased: 4.09 acresAmount paid: Rs. 12.27 lakhPresent value: Rs. 8 crore

Payyavula Keshavdescended

Payyavula Keshav is a clear example of Telugu Desam Party'sfavoritism. The party leaders who have access to the insideinformation abused their position to make personal gains at the costof the ordinary farmers. Right after coming into power, ChandrababuNaidu announced that he would be building a world class Capital city,


but confused the people as to its locationby providing two to three choices. Nevermind, he gave sufficient clarity to hisfollowers on the location of the Capital city.

This informational advantage made theruling party MLC Payyavula Keshav todescend upon the Capital region. Hetoured the villages and found out the bestlocation where the land was currentlycheap, yet would provide returns in thefuture. He finally bought land in Inavoluvillage, which is adjacent to today's CoreCapital region. He bought 4.09 acres(Survey Nos: 48/3, 49/3) of land onOctober 13, 2014, and got registered inthe name of his elder son PayyavulaVikrama Simha. The in the registrationdocuments state that he bought land at acost of Rs. 3.07 lakh per acre, but the same land now costs Rs. 2crore in Inavolu. This means his land prices have gone up by at least50 per cent within a year.

Payyavula Keshav always accuses the Opposition of beingenvious of TDP government's achievements. Many a time, he saidthe government was building a 'people's capital' and the Oppositioncould not stomach this achievement. Now, he must answer why hedeceived the farmers of Capital region by taking advantage of thecrucial information on the location of Capital region.

The documents of landthat was bought in the

name of PayyavulaVikrama Simha

Encroached land: 50 acresRegistered Land: 3.89 acres

Ever since the Capital city location was announced, the illegalland grabbing by the MLAs, MPs and the leaders of the ruling partyknew no limits. The assigned lands, lanka lands, rivulet lands andporamboke lands, they are leaving no land unregistered. They arecreating counterfeit documents, bribing the officials and staff of

Dhulipalla's Poramboke Lands


revenue and registrationdepartments and getting thelands registered in the names oftheir benamis.

Ponnur MLA DhulipallaNarendra Kumar's 'success story'exemplifies such legal plunder bythe elected representatives inAndhra Pradesh. After the Capitalcity announcement, the prices ofthe lands that are adjacent toKolkata-Chennai highway wentup. This has 'incetivised' the MLAto eye the rivulet lands in Namburof Peda Kakani mandal.

Registrations underpressure

Narendra Kumar movedpawns tactically to get 3.80 acres of rivulet land (Survey No: 274)registered in the name of his benami and close relative DevaraPullaih. He pressurised the revenue officials and created landpurchase documents numbered 2638, 2639 and 2640 in the namesof his benamis to create link documents.

The first buyer was Pullaiah's son D. Sambasiva Rao. Then heregistered this land in the names of Upputuri Kiran Kumar, AdusumilliRavi Kiran and Venna Peda Achhi Reddy. With this process, linkdocuments were created. Later, these three have 'sold' the land toSambasiva Rao's father Devara Pullaiah. Under the pressure fromthe ruling party MLA, the officials have divided the land into threesurvey numbers viz. -274/B6, B7 and B8 and registered in the nameof Pullaiah. According to present market rate, this land value is up toRs. 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 hismen. These men are digging bore wells in these lands. It is learnt thatthe MLA had called up the Village Revenue Officer (VRO) andordered him to grant permissions to dig borewells on the encroachedland. The entire village knows that these lands are poramboke lands,but nobody is speaking as they fear that they would be attacked orwould have cases filed against them.

The documents of the rivuletland appropriated by DhulipallaNarendra in the name of one of

his relatives.


Kodela’s Son, theRising Star of the Land!

Kodela Siva Rama Krishna, son of AP Speaker Kodela SivaPrasad Rao, has his own style in grabbing the land. He identifiesthe disputed lands and coerces the parties to sell the land atcheaper prices and simply owns that land. This is what the peoplefrom Narasaraopet and Sattenapalli constituencies experienced sofar. Siva Rama Krishna formed special teams to identify and ownsuch lands nearthe Capital citylimits. The duty ofthese teams is tocollect theinformation ofdisputed lands andtake one party toSiva RamaKrishna. Then heuses varioustactics to forcethem sell the landat a cheaper priceand get itregistered in thenames of hisbenamis.

For instance,there was adispute betweentwo brothers about

Land Purchased: 17.3 acres

Amount Paid: Rs. 93 lakh

Present Value: Rs.18.4 Crore

The documents of the land that was boughtby Kodela Siva Rama Krishna in the name of

his benami Gutta Naga Prasad.

17.3 acres land in survey numbers 167-1A, 167-1C, 168-1 and 168-3 in Dhulipalla village of Sattenapalli mandal. Smelling anopportunity, Siva Rama Krishna summoned one of the brothers andbought his land for just Rs. 8 lakh per acre while the prevailingmarket rate is about Rs. 1.5 crore. Though a case is pending in thecourt about this land, the revenue officials hardly cared for that factand registered the land in the name of Sasi Infra, in which GuttaNaga Prasad is a Managing Partner. Kodela Siva Rama Krishnaused the same tactic, of forcibly occupying, to usurp several acresin Narasaraopet and Sattenapalli constituencies.

Who is this Gutta Naga Prasad?

Gutta Naga Prasad is from Poluru ofYuddanapudi mandal in Prakasam district.He belongs to an ordinary family andcompleted his B.Tech. When Kodela SivaPrasad's elder son Satyanarayana died in aroad accident, he got close to Kodela'sfamily. Kodela Siva Prasada Rao offered hima job when he was the Chairman ofBasavatarakam Indo-American CancerInstitute, Hyderabad.

It was learnt that Kodela got the contract works done in thehospital through Naga Prasad. Once Kodela resigned from theChairmanship of the hospital, Naga Prasad has become his personalassistant. After Kodela became AP Speaker, Naga Prasad beganworking as the personal assistant of his son Kodela Siva RamaKrishna. He also works as a manager in Honda showroom in Guntur.Naga Prasad lives in a rented house in Chilakaluripet and managesthe affairs of Kodela family in Narasaraopet and Sattenapalliconstituencies. How could a middle-class man like Naga Prasad buythe land worth almost Rs. 1 crore? Everybody knows the answer.


Kommalapati…Perfectly Illegal!


Land Purchased: 42 acres

Amount Paid: Rs. 1.26 lakh

Present Value: Rs. 210 Crore

This is a classic example of AP CM Chandrababu Naidu'sfavoritism and the rowdyism of ruling party MLAs in the Capital cityregion. Once the statement about the location of the Capital wasmade, TDP MLA from Pedakurapadu Kommalapati Sridhar who hasa real massive real estate venture stopped transferring the ownershiprights of the plots to the 3,000-odd subscribers to whom he sold theplots seven years ago. Ever since the announcement of new Capitalcity, he has been threatening the subscribers and is asking them toforget about their land plots. He colluded with the Chief Minister andgot his lands excluded from the land pooling. In return, he gave largeshares in his project to Lokesh, the son of Chandrababu.

Denial of RightsKommalapati Sridhar's company Abhinandana Housing Private

Ltd. has been selling plots near Guntur and Vijayawada areas forsome years. The company bought 42 acres of land in Yerrabalemvillage in survey numbers between 485 and 500. The sale of flats thatwere constructed on this land began in 2009. Each subscriber paidthe initial amount of Rs. 25,000 and paid the remaining amount inmonthly installments by 2012.

However, once he collected the full money, he started showing histrue colours. He branded all the subscribers those who failed to payeven one installment as defaulters and refused the registration tomajority of the subscribers. Meanwhile, the venture permissions werestopped as Yerrabalem came under the land pooling range. Whensome members approached Sridhar about their plots, he promisedthem to allocate land in some other venture and finally gave themnothing. When they protested, he used his political power andsilenced them. It is learnt that he defrauded on paying Rs. 15 crorein Yerrabalem venture alone.


The land documents of Abinandana Real Estate thatbelong to Pedakuraadu TDP MLA Kommalapati Sridhar.

Out of the Land Pooling…The government used every available tactic to threaten the

farmers of Yerrabalem to get their land. However, the 42 acres ofSridhar land was not only exempted from land pooling, but werealso dropped from the Master Plan draft. The officials who do notwish to be named said the CM was behind this corrupt gesture. It islearnt that this venture will become the first private real estateventure in the Capital region.

The name is also decided for this venture i.e. Mega City.According to TDP sources, the CRDA is giving all necessarypermissions to Mega City thanks to the special interest of Lokesh inthis venture. When contacted, CRDA Deputy Collector Lalita Kuamrisaid the 42 acres of land was under the land pooling. However, shesaid she informed her higher ups about the non-availability of theland for the pooling. The CRDA Commissioner Srikanth evenrefused to respond to this query.


It was a panic sale

I read all the stories of land robbing in Sakshi and theyare completely true. In the beginning, when we refused

to give our lands, the government terrified us.They said that the lands could be taken awayforcibly if we were not to surrender themvoluntarily. The ruling party leaders and officialstold us that we wouldn't get a compensation ofRs. 20 lakh if we refuse to part ways with ourlands. We were terrified by the government's

adamant behaviour and sold our lands. Now the sameland 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 ofCapital region, it has been deceiving us. When we were

reluctant to give our lands, they used severaltactics to frighten us. Due to this pressure, wesold out our lands at cheaper rates. Theministers and leaders who bought this land fromus told that we wouldn't get the right amount ofcompensation in the land pooling scheme andmade us sell our lands. The farmers haveincurred heavy losses as they sold the lands atthrowaway prices.

- Koppolu Venkateswarlu, Bethapudi, Mangalagiri mandal.

Open fraud anddeception…

the farmers’ response


It’s all a drama

The stories that appeared in Sakshi daily on Wednesdayare 100 % accurate. Before the Capital region

announcement, the MPs, MLAs and Ministerscame here, scared us and bought our lands. Now,they keep changing their versions and playdramas. Financially we lost a lot. There should bea probe into the real estate transactions ofbigwigs who bought land from the farmers.

- Jonna Sivasankar, Undavalli,

Tadepalli mandal.

They have forced us!

Our lands were fertile and three-crop lands. We wereterrified by the government and ruling partyleaders when we refused to give away our lands.We were forced to sell the lands at lower prices.Now we are duped.

-Bethapudi Sambaiah, Nidamarru,Mangalagiri Mandal.

They told us no compensation to assigned lands

The government delayed the announcement of thecompensation to assigned lands. It announced the

compensation after we had sold all of our lands.Because of this, we have financially lost a lot. Ihave sold my 83 cents land for Rs. 39 lakh. Thesame land is now worth about Rs. 1.20 crore. It isreally difficult to digest this fact.

- Ravuri Prabhu Das, Kuragallu,Managalagiri Mandal.


It was distress sale!

We sold our lands as we were told that ourlands will be taken away from us for landpooling. We were told we will not be receivingany compensation. I have sold half an acre ofmy land at Rs. 18 lakh and now it costs aboutRs. 70 lakh. I am not able to put up with thisfraud.

- Chenchu Rama Rao, Kuragallu,Managalagiri mandal.

Leaders have cheated us

I bought land in Rayapudi at the cost of Rs. 40 lakh.Government officials scared me that the land wasunder the range of land pooling and a road wouldbe constructed through my land. The TDP leadersasked me to sell the land for the same price. Thenthey brought the price down to Rs. 35 lakh peracre. The followers of TDP MLAs decided landprices here. I lost due to the deception of the TDPleaders.

- Dasari Anjaneyulu, Undavalli, Tadepalle mandal.

They have deflated the land prices

An acre land was about Rs. 5 crore before theannouncement of Capital region. But the TDPleaders created confusion about the land rates.When farmers wanted to sell the land, they couldnot get even Rs. 1 crore. The TDP leaders boughtlands at lower rates. We would like to go to courton this open fraud.

- Meka Prabhakar Reddy, Penumaka,Tadepalle Mandal.


Andhra Pradesh Chief MinisterChandrababu Naidu giving an interivew to

Shekar Gupta from the illegal guesthouse gifted to him by LingamaneniRamesh. The AP government earlier

declared the building illegal as it wasbreaching the environmental laws.

However, the CM made it a official guesthouse once it was gifted to him.

A King of EncroachmentsLingamaneni Ramesh

Very Close to the CM!


Who is Lingamaneni Ramesh?He is not only the boss of Aircosta airlines, but also an encroacher

who captured the River Krishna and built a huge palace over its bank.He then offered this illegal palace to the Chief Minister as a gift for thefavours that he had received. The CM happily took the guest houseand forgot illegeal status.

With the CM's support, Lingamaneni Ramesh took hundreds ofacres of land into his custody between Guntur and Vijayawada. Thenhe efficiently built a fence around these occupied lands. His efficiencywas so impeccable that the Capital city region limit came very nearto his estate and then went the other way!

The stories of Chandrababu Naidu's benamis are coming out one

Thebeginning ofLingamaneni

Estate atKaza village.

This is the end of Nidamarru village.The CRDA limit ends here.


after one. Sakshi gatheredanother irrefutable evidence forthe link between AndhraPradesh CM ChandrababuNaidu and LingamaneniRamesh. To get this evidence,Sakshi did not have to work.The poor farmers who lost theirlands to Lingamaneni Rameshvolunteered to hand over theevidence that showed how hehad grabbed their land toextend his estate.

This evidence also demon-strates the CM's preferentialtreatment for his benamis anddifferential treatment for thepoor farmers. The governmentwas so adamant aboutcollecting the three-crop landsfrom the farmers, but it wasvery generous when it came toLingamaneni Estate lands,which are located nearNidamarru village. Here are thedetails of the friendliness that were showered by the AP CM onLingamaneni Ramesh.

There are about 300 acres of land in Kaza village, which has thelimestone reserves. This land was leased to Mumbai-basedAssociated Cement Company for 99 years way back in 1937. Then,on behalf of MDWH Bennetts company, Kurmaraju Gopala Swamyentered into agreements with the farmers. He only obtained the salecontracts from the farmers. In the case of the cement companystopping the mining on the land, a provision was made in favour ofthe farmers that they could take up agriculture in their respectivelands until the end of the lease period.

Once the period is over, the rights of the lands shall return to thelegal heirs of the farmers who originally owned the lands. All thesedetails were mentioned in the sale contracts. The ACC has stoppedmining on these lands long ago as it had closed down its local unit.However, once the unit is closed, things haven't taken place as theywere supposed to be and have gone wrong completely.

The document that showsthe rights of the farmers

that they could retake thelands after the 99 years'

lease period.


Once Chandrababu in Power…Lingamaneni occupied these lands and once Chandrababu came

to power, Lingamaneni had used political power to coerce thefarmers. The farmers had to sign on empty stamp papers andLingamaneni and Co. wrote some cooked up content on thosepapers and got the lands worth Rs. 1500 crore registered in theirname.

Lingamaneni converted these lands into an 'Estate' by fencing theland, arranged for security guards and installed CCTV cameras. Nowthe land value in this area is Rs. 5 crore per acre. The entire episodecame out as some of the farmers from Kaza village still possess saleagreement papers. When they tried to locate their lands, they cameto know that the lands were located within the Lingamaneni Estate.

Irrefutable evidence with farmers…The farmers said they have full evidence for their land ownership

and still they were not allowed to visit their lands that are located inLingamaneni Estate. They told that they were stopped by the privatearmy of Lingamaneni Ramesh.

Though farmers have complained about the activities of this landmafia, there was no use. No revenue or police official had the guts togo against the will of the CM. According to the farmers, Lingamanenihad occupied 300 acres of land in the survey numbers of 191, 192,and 226, among others.

As Sakshi published the stories on manipulative land transactionsof other TDP leaders, the farmers approached Sakshi and shared theevidence that they have with them. Their contribution has helpedSakshi nail down the industrialist cum encroacher who is a close aideof the Chief Minister.

Rayapudi (6 lankas)

Uddandarayanipalem

Mandadam

Venkatapalem

Undavalli lankas

Thallayapalem

A Ravan inEvery Lanka

They always eyed the lanka (riverbed) lands and

assigned lands from the very beginning.

13

acres of assigned land is being cultivated in the Capitalcity region. 1,278 acres of land was assigned in 1954.The remaining 750 acres were distributed to SC, ST, BCfarmers in later phases.

2,028

acres of lanka and assigned lands are being cultivatedin these villages. Out of this, 574.93 acres are assignedlands and 1,584.24 acres are lanka lands.


is the number of lankas (riverbed land areas) the in Capital cityregion. While 6 lankas are situated in Rayapudi, 2 belong toUndavalli. Lingayapalem, Mandadam, Uddandarayunipalem andVenkatapalem have one each.

2159.17


acres of lanka and assigned lands werebought by TDP leaders in the names oftheir benamis.

3,097

While the erstwhile Ravan abducted Sita, today's Ravans aretrying to capture the lanka lands. Using full force they make strategicmoves to buy the lands that they are no supposed to buy.

To make life easy for the ruling party realtors, the government firstremoved lanka lands from land pooling scheme. It then terrified thesmall farmers with the rumour that government plans to take backlanka lands without paying compensation. The government officialsand media outlets of the TDP indulged in Goebbels' campaign andcreated fear among the farmers.

Taking advantage of these moves, the ruling party leadersdescended upon lanka villages and bought the lands paying betweenRs. 5 lakh to Rs. 35 per acre. Once these transactions wereconcluded, the government announced a compensation package inlieu of the owners surrendering lanka lands!

Exempted from Notification

In the Capital region, there are 13 lankas (riverbed lands) whichare spread over 29 villages. These riverbeds are being used forcultivation. There are 574.93 acres of assigned land and 1584.24acres of lanka land. The government distributed the land between1954 and 1976 among poor Dalit farmers. They were given land titlesfor small holdings that ranged from 77 cents to 1 acre.

These Dalit families built their lives around these small holdingsand for most of them the land offered a dependable livelihood andhope. However, the trouble started with the issuance of orders for


land pooling in 29 villages of capital region. The land pooling orders stated that only assigned and patta lands

would be pooled in the Capital region. Chandrababu Naidu madesure that those orders did not mention lanka lands. The absence ofany reference to the lanka land created confusion. The confusedfarmer became vulnerable.

Real Vultures ExploitThe ministers Narayana, Prathipati Pulla Rao and Devineni

Umamaheswara Rao who toured the villages of Capital city regionextensively for three months during the land pooling process tookadvantage of this confusion. They showed the lack of mention oflanka (riverbed) lands in land pooling orders and instructed their mento spread the rumour that the government plans to take over the lankalands. The misinformation campaign created panic among the farmersin 13 lanka villages. TDP men visited each house of the farmers oflanka lands and stated that they (farmers) had no option. The farmerswere pushed to a state where they had to sell their lands off.

The TDP local leaders passed on this information to the ministersand the ministers promptly sent their benamis to the lanka villages.According to the information shared by Dalit farmers to Sakshi, NaraLokesh bought lanka lands in Uddandarayunipalem andLingayapalem lankas, Devineni Umamaheswara Rao and PrathipatiPulla Rao bought lands in Thallayapalem and Venkatapalem lankas,Narayana bought in Rayapudi lankas, Balakrishna's in-law boughtlands in Mandadam and Undavalli lankas.

Prathipati Pulla Rao alone bought 96.4 acres of lanka lands in thename of his benami Gummadi Suresh. However, he has got only1.01 acres of land registered at Mangalagiri Sub-registrar office. Asthe registration officials rejected to register the remaining land, theminister entered into sale agreements with farmers. Remainingministers also entered into sale agreements with the farmers.However, the vultures took possession of the documents pass booksand assignment documents issued by the government.

Scandal of Rs. 2,500 crore Once Nara Lokesh, son of Chandrababu Naidu, bought the lanka

lands, the Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) issued landpooling notification for 1,093 acres in Rayapudi village limits and162.50 acres in Undavalli lankas. However, this notification did notmention the survey numbers of the lands to be pooled due to the fearthat the farmers will know the ownership status. The CRDA officialsthemselves are stating that such issuance of notification without


Thedocuments oflanka landsbought byGummadiSuresh, abenami of

Prathipati PullaRao.


details is against law. Since the government has agreed to pool theselands too, their value has now gone up to Rs. 1.75 crore per acre.

The CM recently ordered the Chief Commissioner of LandAdministration that the new owners of the lanka lands should begiven all the benefits instead of the original owners. It is learnt thatthrough this decision, the CM wants to make his son Nara Lokeshand his ministers who bought the lanka lands richer by Rs 2,500crore.

TDP leaders bought lanka lands

Most of the Dalit farmers from lanka villages areilliterates. My elder brother also sold 77 cents land.

These people have blindly trusted the ruling partyleaders. Out of the fear of government's takeover,they have gone for a panic sale. Brahma Reddyof Mangalagiri, Gummadi Suresh of Vijayawadabought 150 acres land in my village for NaraLokesh, Balakrishna, ministers Narayana,Devineni Umamaheswara Rao and MP GallaJayadev. As lanka lands are also being pooled

now, their price has gone up.

- Tirumanpalli Jayaprakash, Thallayapalem Lanka.

Sold my land out of fear

The one-acre lanka land was our sole source oflivelihood. As TDP leaders told me that the government

would take over my land, I have sold it for Rs. 22lakh. Meanwhile, my daughter marriage gotfixed. I was paid Rs. 5 lakh as advance. Theytold me that they would give me the remainingamount of Rs. 17 lakh only if I give my land forpooling. Now, the government wants to takelanka lands in land pooling, the land price hasgone up to Rs. 1.50 crore. Because of the ruling

party fear tactics, I have lost a fortune of Rs. 1.28 crore.

- Mandala Mary Babu, Uddandarayunipalem Lanka.


They have terrified us

In our villages, the ruling party leaders ran a massivepropaganda which said that we were going to lose our

land. When we approached the governmentofficials, they told us that the government hasevery right over the land as they were once givenby the government. Then, I felt that there was noway-out and sold my 90 cents land for Rs. 16lakh. Now, the same land is worth Rs. 1.50 crore.I sold my land as the government has failed toannounce its policy on assigned lands in time.

- Nandigam Nagendramma, Uddandarayanipalem.

I am a TDP cadre and they still deceived me

I have 1.40 acres of land in lankas and I am a strongbacker of the ruling TDP. My party leaders have told me

that the government will take over our landswithout paying us any compensation. As Itrusted them, I sold my land for Rs. 40 lakh. I gotRs. 10 lakh as advance. Now since thegovernment has announced that it would takelanka lands in pooling, the land price has goneup to Rs. 1.5 crore. I am a panchayat boardmember from the ruling party and they still

deceived me. This is something I cannot stomach easily.

- Suddapalli Koteswara Rao, Uddandarayanipalem Lanka.

Officials too have scared us

The CRDA officials told us that we would notreceive compensation for our assigned lands incase the government decides to take them over.That is why we sold the land as and when thebuyers were available. Because of this fear, I havesold my 3 acres of land for Rs. 45 lakh. Now, thevalue of an acre land is almost Rs. 2 crore and Ihave lost the fortune because of government's

fraudulent maneuvers.

- Puli Subba Rao, Uddandarayanipalem


Would have sold land if the package was there

The government gave us one acre land 10 years back.Since then we depended on this land. When I was workingin a field, I overheard people say that the government wasgoing to take over the assigned lands. I feared thatChandrababu Naidu would take away my land, that's why Ihave sold it for Rs. 20 lakh. Now, the same land value isabout Rs. 1.5 crore. If the government announced theassigned land policy earlier, I wouldn't have sold my land.

- Mandal Philip, Uddandarayanipalem

Dhulipalla did not Stop

Dhulipalla Narendra Kumardid not stop with encroachingthe rivulet poramboke lands inNambur village of Peda Kakanimandal. Being tipped off aboutthe location of the Capital city,he bought 0.72 acres (Surveyno: 69-1) and 2.86 acres(Survey no: 69-2) in Inavoluvillage, which is quite close toCore Capital region in thename of his elder daughterDhulipalla Veera Vaishnavi. Hebought this land in 2014 itselffor Rs. 3.80 lakh per acre.Thus, he pocketed 3.58 acreland for only Rs. 13.60 lakh.Now the same land costsabout Rs. 7 crore per acre. Itlearnt that Dhulipalla bought atotal of 50 acres land in theCapital region in the name ofhis benamis.

The documents of landbought by Dhulipalla Narendra

Kumar in the name of hisdaughter


Share ofAnjaneyulu

is 4.69acres!

TDP MLA G.V.Anjaneyulu, who representsVinukonda constituency, alsohas his share in the legalland grab. Having beeninformed about the locationof the Capital city, he bought4.96 acres (2.26 acres ofsurvey number 77-2, 0.97acres of survey number 121-7 and 1.46 acres of surveynumber 137-2) in Inavoluvillage, which is very close tothe Core Capital region. Hebought the land in 2014 inthe name of his daughterGonuguntla LakshmiSowjanya. Then, he spentonly Rs. 3.9 lakh on eachacre, now the same landvalue is Rs. 2 crore per acre.This means the land valuehas gone up by 50 times.Anjaneyulu often tells thathosting the Capital city inGuntur district is a greatprivilege; however, he mustalso tell how ethical it was tocash in on privileged insiderinformation and depriveordinary farmers of theirprospective fortunes.

The details of the landbought by the TDP MLA G.V.Anjaneyulu in the name of

his daughter


The land pooling orders issued by the government onJanuary 1, 2015, which has announced the package for

assigned lands.

Assigned LandsAlienated

The package for assigned lands was announced on February 17, 2016after the ruling party operatives have concluded their land deals.


The Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu saw a businessopportunity in the assigned lands of Dalit farmers. He prepared apukka plan to get their lands at cheapest possible rates. Though theland pooling notification clearly said the assigned lands would also begiven compensation on par with other lands, a concerted propagandawas run in the villages of Capital city region that assigned landswouldn't be given compensation at all.

To fuel these fears, the state government ordered the CRDACommissioner N Srikanth on June 12, 2015, to stop the distributionof compensation cheques that were supposed to be distributedamong the tenant farmers. The government argued that legal issueswith some of the assigned lands required being resolved before thecheques could be issued. The CRDA, the organisation that isinstrumental in implementing the real estate plans of the CM,immediately send the cheques back to the government.

This deed of CRDA once again 'showed' that the government wasready to take the assigned lands back without paying anycompensation. Giving in to the pressure put up by the governmentand ruling party, the assigned landholders sold their lands at the rateranging between of Rs. 5 lakh to Rs. 40 lakh per acre. Once thesetransactions were concluded, the State government announced thepackage for assigned lands and this package as usually inflated ratesof those lands overnight.

Heavy Competition among TDP BigwigsThe TDP bigwigs competed with each other to get the assigned

lands. Dalit farmers told Sakshi that the son of Chief Minister NaraLokesh and Irrigation Minister Devineni Uma Maheswara Rao boughtthe assigned lands with the help of benamis and a real estate brokerfrom Mangalagiri. According to TDP sources, these TDP leadersbought about 474 acres in Tadepalli, Mangalagiri, Thullur andAmaravati mandals. Agriculture minister Pratthipati Pulla Rao alsobought assigned lands through his benami Gummadi Suresh. TheTDP leaders outdid each other and usurped about 1,848 acres ofassigned land, which is worth about Rs. 3,234 crore now.

Daylight Deception and Legal Robbery

Purchase of the assigned lands is against law. But the TDPrealtors have shown their impeccable talent in buying those lands.They paid 25% of the money initially and visually documented the'payment event'. They got into agreements with the farmers. Theagreements saud the farmers got these lands before 1954 and theyselling them willingly. Then they told the Dalit farmers that remaining


amount would be given once they give their lands for the pooling, orelse transactions would be cancelled. Some of the leaders used theloopholes in the Registration Act, bribed the Registration Departmentofficials and got the lands registered. Some have gone to courts andgot No Objection Certificates (NOC) for the registrations and then gotthe land registered.

Sub-registrar Offices of Thullur, Mangalagiri, Amaravati, PedaKakani and Guntur done 499 registrations pertaining to 480 acres ofassigned land. They have done another 350 pending registrationspertaining to sale transactions of 650 acres. In all, the TDP leadersbought 348.46 acres of assigned land. They also bought another1200 acres through purchase agreements. Today, here, an acre ofland values about Rs. 1.75 crore, which means the ruling partyoperatives made profits of about Rs. 2,775 crore through illicittransactions of assigned lands.

Tricks of Benami Trade Though purchase of assigned lands is illegal, the benamis have

shown their panache in buying them. They followed a well thought-out strategy. First, they submitted the documents for registrationand those documents were promptly rejected by the registrationoffices. The benamis then went to court and got NOC for theregistration. This certificate cleared the decks for registration. InMangalagiri, 560 documents came for assigned lands' registration.As per the script, 333 documents were denied by the office.According to the available information, 107 of those documentsbelong to an important minister, who is active in the land grabbing.


Land Pooling Notification Binned In the 29 villages of the Capital city region, there were

2,028 acres of assigned land. In this, 1,278 acres of landwas assigned in 1954. The remaining 750 acres were

distributed to SC, ST, OBC farmers in several phases inone acre and half-acre bits.

● The initial orders of the government said compensation would begiven only to assigned patta lands. Those orders said that pattajareebu (fertile) lands will get annual compensation of Rs. 50,000and patta arid lands will get Rs. 30,000 for each acre. The ownersof the assigned land also would also be given samecompensation, according to the notification.

● The government has also decided to give 1,000 sq. yardresidential plot and 450 sq. yard commercial plot for each acre ofpatta jareebu (fertile) land and 1,000 sq. yard residential plot and200 sq. yard commercial plot for each acre of patta arid lands.

● Assigned arid land farmers would get 800 sq. yard residential plotand 100 sq. yard commercial plot and assigned jareebu (fertile)land owners would get 800 sq. yard residential plot and 200 sq.yard commercial plot for each acre of their land.

● However, these orders of the notification were not in effect forsome time until the TDP operatives completed their deals inassigned lands.

Now, We Compensate You GenerouslyThe TDP government has once again declared compensation

package and this time a more generous one. The compensationpackage for assigned lands was announced once the leaders of theruling party concluded several assigned land deals.

The Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu took this decision in ahigh-level review meeting in Vijayawada on December 13, 2015. Inthis meeting, it was decided to bestow full entitlements of the landsto the present owners of the assigned lands. The CM issued an orderto the Chief Commissioner of Land Administration (CCLA) to thiseffect.

It was clear that this order was given to benefit his son Nara Lokeshand other members of his inner circle who bought assigned lands on


a big scale. While, on the one side, the government has decided toregularize the sale transactions of assigned lands, on the other hand,announced the compensation package on March 17, 2016.

While the assigned lands that were given before 1954 were given1,000 sq. yard residential plot and 200 sq. yard commercial plot foreach acre of arid lands and 1,000 sq. yard residential plot and 450sq. yard commercial plot for each acre of jareebu land. For the landsthat were assigned after 1954, the arid land farmers were announced800 sq. yard residential plot and 100 sq. yard commercial plot pereach acre and the jareebu land owners would get 800 sq. yardresidential plot and 200 sq. yard commercial plot for each acre oftheir land.

But now, the new rules would enable the new owners of theassigned lands- read TDP ministers, MLAs and MPs- to pocket all thecompensation. They now get annual tenancy of Rs. 50,000 (forjareebu lands) and Rs. 30,000 (for arid lands) and also thecommercial and residential plots.

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 governmentofficials and TDP leaders scared us tellingthat government would take back theassigned lands without any compensationand it would better for us to surrender it. So,we gave away our land. However, we haven'tgot any compensation so far. Now, we aredeprived of our only source of livelihood aswe cannot cultivate that land anymore. Wehave been making rounds to governmentoffices for our compensation. We request thegovernment that it should compensateassigned lands farmers on par with otherlands.

- Pachhala Nageswara Rao, Mohan Rao, Navuluru.


It's our land since three generations

We have been cultivating the land given by thegovernment for three generations. When we have

refused to part ways with our land we werethreatened by the government officials. Theofficials said that government has every right totake back land and if it takes away the land wewill not receive any compensation. We gaveaway our lands then. However, we haven't gotany compensation so far. The government mustcome to our rescue; we must be treated on parwith other land owners.

- Vemuri Jawaharlal, Navuluru.

Government doesn't care for Dalits

How can families dependent on the landsurvive without receiving compensation? Wewere given pattas for the assigned lands and wehave been cultivating them for generations. Thisgovernment hardly cares for Dalits, that's whywe haven't got our compensation so far. Afterthis delay, they have announced a lowerpackage now. We should be compensated onpar with other land owners.

- Vemuri John, Navuluru.


Agriculture Protection Zone - 1

Agriculture Protection Zone - 2

Agriculture Protection Zone – 3

Present Urban Area

Proposed Urban Area

Proposed Industrial Area

Red Zone in theName of Green Zone


Zone classification is another stage of the land grab drama stagedby the Telugu Desam Party government. The government decided toclassify the Capital region into commercial and agricultural zones. Inthe agricultural zones, the land must be dedicated only to agriculture,while the commercial zones would have all the commercialestablishments.

The CM decided under which heads the lands in the Capitalregion must be classified under. The classification is based only onecriterion-who owns the land? The CM planned this classification onlyto inflate the prices of the lands owned by his son Nara Lokesh, hisministers, MLAs, MPs and his party leaders. These thieves whooccupy public offices bought huge amounts of land which today fallinside commercial zones. The lands owned by common people areclubbed together under the agricultural zones.

The government imposed several restrictions on the usage ofland in agricultural zones. Whether the lands are fertile or not, theyare to be used only for agriculture. This classification has ensurederosion of land value in some areas and inflation of it in other areas.

This is Green Zone

The CRDA is spread across 58 mandals in Krishna and Gunturdistricts in 8,603, 32 sq. kilometers. In the draft Master Plan, 63.23per cent of the land i.e. 5,940.26 sq. kilometers is shown asAgricultural Protection Zone (APZ). This is equivalent to 15 lakhacres. While APZ-1 is Krishna district, the APZ-2 and 3 are in Gunturdistrict.

Strategic Buyouts

While APZ-1 has a heavy agricultural tilt, the APZ-2 and 3 aregoing to host Future Urbanised Developable Area, which will bedeveloped by the government once it has completed thedevelopment of the Capital city limit. TDP leaders and their benamishave bought about 10,000 acres of land in APZ 2 and the proposedurbaised area as it is evident from picture present with the dots. Theycould do this because of the insider information about the Capital cityregion location. They also knew where the zones are going to belocated. The Perspective Plan of the Capital was prepared andaligned to suit their interests. The city planners planned thedevelopment projects in the city according to the interests of the TDPland vultures. This means the government is going to come up withnew constructions near the lands of TDP leaders.


Zone-I is only for Agriculture

In the APZ-1, only the activities related to agriculture, horticulture,dairy, poultry and fisheries would be allowed. This point was veryclearly mentioned in the Perspective Plan. The MunicipalDevelopment Minister Narayana declared that the APZ-1 isdedicated exclusively to agriculture because the lands in this areawere fertile. Indeed, the lands of APZ-2 and 3 are more fertile whencompared to APZ-1. According to the Section 38 of the AP CRDA Act,any changes could be made to Perspective Plan and Master Planonly after 10 and 5 years respectively. This means no changes arepossible in the Act as to the zone classification. This provision wasinserted into the act only to benefit TDP land vultures.

Nominal Development Perspective Plan made it clear that only agriculture and agri-

related industries shall come up in the APZ-1. This region cannot hosteither industrial units or service industries and this restriction makesthe region financially unattractive. It is learnt that these lands weremade agriculture-only lands to increase the value of commercial plotsthat were allocated to farmers in the Capital city region. However, thefarmers in the APZ-1 are set to lose big time with this decision. Thefarmers from this region are feeling bad that they were madescapegoats. They were used to inflate the prices of the lands whichare held by members of the ruling party men.

Grounded Land Prices, Stalled TransactionsBefore the declaration of zone classification, the land price per acre was

about Rs. 3 crore in the villages that now fall under APZ-1. ChandrababuNaidu declared that he was the raison d'être for the growth in the land priceswhen the land prices were similar across the Capital city region. But after theannouncement of zone classification, the land prices have plummeted in theGreen Zone areas. Now, an acre of land is valued not more than Rs. 50 lakh.The lands that are far from villages are being asked for a much lesser pricearound Rs. 20 lakh to Rs. 40 lakh per acre.

The government has taken away fertile lands. It undertakes business withforeign firms, but it ensured that its own farmers wouldn't benefit out of theCapital region. It is learnt that the TDP leaders are trying to cash in on thisunfortunate development. They are trying to buy land at suppressed rates.Then they intend to sell the lands to foreign firms, which are keen toundertake large-scale farming activities. They already own huge land tractsin the villages of Kankipadu, Vuyyuru, Penuganchiprolu, Jaggayyapeta,Nandigama, Kanchikacherla and Veerullapadu mandals.


Agitating Farmers Farmers are very angry with Chandrababu Naidu's policy flip-

flops, particularly his decision on Green Zones. Chandrababu hastaken the fertile lands and included them in Commercial Zone andkept the dry lands in agricultural zones. Farmers fear that thegovernment is setting up another malicious plot.

Of late, the farmers have agitated in Krishna and Guntur districtsunder the leadership of YSR Congress Party. They have conducteddharnas and road blockades in Kankipadu, Vuyyuru,Penuganchiprolu, Jaggayyapeta, Nandigama, Kanchikacherla and GKonduru mandals. Several experts have objected the zoneclassification of the CRDA. In only one month, 2,000 objections wereregistered with the CRDA, which is a serious indication ofdissatisfaction among the people. The village panchayats,irrespective of the party affiliation of the elected representatives, aresending formal resolutions to the state government. Farmers arewarning the government of serious consequences if the governmentdoesn't withdraw its decision.

Agricultural Protection Zone- 1In Krishna district, Mopidevi, Challapalli, Ghantasala, Movva,Pamidimukkala, Thotlavalluru, Vuyyuru, Kankipadu, Pedaparupudi,Gudivada Rural, Nandivada, Veerulapaadu, Vatsavai,Penuganchiprolu, Mylavaram, G. Konduru, and Nuzvid mandals arecompletely included in this zone, while Paamarru, Unguturu,Baavulapaadu, Aarigipalli, Ibrahimpatnam mandals are partiallyincluded in APZ-1. In Guntur district, Prattipadu, Vatticherukuru, Chebrolu, Chundur,Amrutaluru, Kolluru, Tenali Rural, Kollipara, Vemuru, Chebrolu,Battiprolu mandals completely and Ponnur, Pedakakani andDuggirala mandals are partially included in this zone. This prohibitsurbanisation.

Agricultural Protection Zone- 2In Krishna district, complete Chandarlapadu mandal, Kanchikacherla and

Jaggayyapet partially are included in this zone. In Guntur district, Edlapadu,Phirangipuram, Krosuru and Atchampet mandals completely, Medikonduru andPedakurapadu mandals are partially included in this zone for city's expansionin the future. All activities in the proposed urbanised zone are allowed.


Green Zone made our future questionable

I am working in a foundry in Autonagar, Vijayawada. I live in arented house. We bought 80 cents land in Mutylampadu in2006. I have sold my land to meet the educational expensesof my kids as well to construct a house and a foundry. I havesold the land for Rs. 80 lakh. I was given Rs.15 lakh advanceand an agreement was made.

Upon receiving the advance amount, I started the houseconstruction in Nidamanuru. Now because of Green Zonerestrictions, the land rates have suddenly plummeted in myarea. Now the buyers are telling me that they could not paymore than Rs. 40 lakh for my land. Otherwise, they want tohave their advancement back, which is a tricky situation forme. I am not able to figure out a solution at this point of time.

- S. Rambabu, Foundry Worker, Vijayawada.

Agricultural Protection Zone- 3In Krishna district, Kanchikacherla mandal is partially included

in this zone. In Guntur district, Tadikonda and Medikondrumandals completely and Pedakurapadu and Amaravati mandalsare partially brought under this zone. This zone is located to thewest and south of the Capital city.

Farmers are in full dilemma

The land value which was at Rs. 2 crore per acrehas now come down to Rs. 1 crore. We onlyhave land, if we cannot convert the land intomoney for other usages, how can we benefitfrom that land? Our land is located very close toVijayawada. But the restrictions in the name ofGreen Zone have landed us in trouble.

- Bommareddy Srinivasa Reddy, Chalivendrapalem.


My daughter marriage is in trouble

I have no option other than suicide. I am serving mysecond term as Sarpanch of Gurrajupalem and I have

one-acre land. As the prices were really goodbefore the enforcement of Green Zonerestrictions, I thought of getting my daughtermarried. Buyers asked my land for Rs. 60 lakh, Iwanted to sell it for Rs. 75 lakh. However, theland price vaporized the land price in G. Kondurumandal overnight as Green Zone restrictions areput in place. The latest price quote I got was Rs.

18 lakh! - Thamatam Venkatramayya, Sarpanch, Gurrajupalem, G.

Konduru mandal.

Only to trouble us

The government restricted us saying that weshould only cultivate the lands that have fallenunder the Green Zone until 2050. Now, nobodywants to buy our lands at high prices. We want tosell our lands for our children's education as wellas their marriages, but now the prices arecompletely depressed. No one is willing to buythem at higher rates and we cannot sell them atsuch depressed prices.

- Mandala Veera Reddy, Farmer, Nambur.


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 corruption of his previous nine-

year tenure put together. Kickbacks, bribes,

shares, commissions… the name could differ,

but corruption is open and ubiquitous in the

state. 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. From sand reaches to solar plants,

tenders in Irrigation Department to Power

Department, Chandrababu made corruption a

systemic practice.

emperor-of-corruption.pdf - S Swaroop Sirapangi's

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