Expressing apprehensions and strong resentment over TDP land acquisition policy, several locals have said that they cannot trust Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu who went back on his poll promise of waiver of loans and they are not prepared to give up their land in lieu of the benefits being promised.
“We have already tasted the Chief Minister’s failure in keeping up promises and if we give our small land holding believing the promise of the State we will be at a loss for livelihood,” farmers of several villages which fall under Talluru mandal told a visiting delegation of YSR Congress Farmers’ Rights Protection committee during its tour on Monday.
“We are not prepared to part the fertile land at any cost”, they told the members categorically.
“Though we are not against the capital city coming up in this place, where is the need to acquire such a large extent of land for the capital? If the land is given for development, the builder pay goodwill and a share in the infrastructure, but here the State is trying to acquire land without paying any money and we are against it as the larger game plan appears to benefit the realtors and the proposal of giving small measure of developed land for one acre of fertile land at a later date is sheer exploitation,” they said adding that they will be losing their livelihood if they give away the land.
