BRS working president KT Rama Rao has urged the Telangana government to use 550 acres of Miyapur land for housing for Telangana movement activists, martyrs’ families and economically weaker sections instead of monetising the entire parcel.
Speaking at a meeting where Congress workers from Serilingampally joined the BRS, Rama Rao asked Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy to honour a promise in the Congress election manifesto to allot 250 square yards to Telangana movement activists. He said the availability of land in Miyapur created an opportunity to fulfil that commitment in Hyderabad.
“If land has now become available in Miyapur, and if you are sincere, will you allocate plots to all those who worked for the Telangana movement?” Rama Rao asked, according to the report.
He proposed that part of the land be reserved for martyrs’ families and movement activists, while another portion could be used to construct homes for poor and economically weaker residents. The remaining land, he said, could support public institutions such as schools and colleges.
Rama Rao also questioned the reported proposal to establish a colony for Telangana martyrs’ families at Erravelli, which he said was around 70 kilometres from Hyderabad. He alleged that the choice of Erravelli was politically motivated because former chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao lives there and the village has become a centre of Telangana politics.
Instead, he called for housing to be developed in Miyapur itself. “Construct excellent houses for the martyrs in Miyapur. We will wholeheartedly support it,” he said.
The BRS leader said his party would not oppose the use of 100 acres in Hyderabad for housing towers for poor residents, provided the homes were built to a high standard and allotted to economically weaker sections. His remarks placed affordable housing and public-purpose development alongside the question of how a valuable urban land parcel should be used.
Rama Rao criticised the state government’s reported plans to monetise the Miyapur lands. He warned industrialists against participating in what he described as the “HILT Policy scam” and claimed that a future BRS government would review such land transactions. These allegations and the claim that the BRS could return to power within a year were political statements made by Rama Rao and were not independently established in the report.
The dispute centres on a broader administrative choice facing governments in expanding cities: whether strategically located public land should be sold or monetised, or retained for housing, institutions and other civic purposes. The report does not provide details of the government’s land monetisation plan, the current legal status of the 550 acres, the ownership or custody arrangements, or any approved development timeline.
The report also does not record a response from the Telangana government or Chief Minister Revanth Reddy to Rama Rao’s demand. Any decision on the Miyapur land, including its allocation, development model and beneficiary selection, would therefore depend on subsequent government announcements and official land-use plans.
