BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao has challenged Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy to release a White Paper detailing the alleged encroachment of 8,000 acres of government land in Sircilla, turning an unsubstantiated political allegation into a demand for public disclosure of land records.
In a letter addressed to the Chief Minister ahead of his scheduled September 30 visit to Sircilla, Rama Rao asked the government to publish the survey numbers, villages, mandals, names of alleged encroachers and the area involved. He called the allegations baseless and said the government should either substantiate them through a White Paper or issue an unconditional apology to the people of Sircilla.
The demand places the focus on the administrative evidence required to establish ownership and alleged encroachment of public land. Survey numbers and village- and mandal-level details would allow the claims to be examined against official land records, while identifying the alleged encroachers and the extent of land involved would clarify the scale of the matter. The report does not include a response from the Chief Minister or details of any government document supporting the 8,000-acre allegation.
Rama Rao also used the letter to raise concerns about the local weaving economy. He sought payment of pending dues of Rs 60 crore to weavers, restoration of the Rs 5 lakh weaver insurance scheme and reopening of the weaving park, which he said was being used for storage. He alleged that the Bathukamma sari scheme had been stopped and that textile orders had been limited to women’s groups, reducing employment for weavers from year-round work to less than six months.
The BRS leader further sought clarity on Rythu Bandhu arrears, the promised Rs 2 lakh loan waiver for each farmer and the revival of crop insurance. He said around 56,000 farmers in the Sircilla constituency had received Rs 532 crore in investment support under Rythu Bandhu during the BRS government, calculated at Rs 10,000 per acre. He alleged that the Congress government had not increased the support to Rs 15,000 as promised.
Rama Rao also questioned the implementation of Congress election guarantees, including the Mahalakshmi scheme, pension increases and welfare programmes such as Dalit Bandhu and BC Bandhu. He claimed that unpaid pensions for the 33 months since Congress came to power had accumulated to Rs 66,000 for each senior citizen and beedi worker, and demanded immediate payment.
The competing claims connect Sircilla’s land administration to wider questions about public records, welfare delivery and the functioning of the district’s weaving and farming economies. However, the central land allegation remains a political claim in the material available for this report. The next significant development will be the government’s response, including whether it releases the detailed land information sought before or during the Chief Minister’s September 30 visit.
