The Praja Rajyam party today launched a counter-attack on the Congress for the personal critisism against its youth wing leader Pawan Kalyan.
Speaking at separate press conferences here today, party political spokesperson C Ramachandraiah, senior leader Khalil Basha, ideologue Kathi Padma Rao and a few women activists attacked Minority Welfare Minister Mohd Shabbir Ali, and actor couple Rajasekhar and Jeevita.
Ramachandraiah and Basha said Shabbir Ali had betrayed the oath of office that he would protect the properties of the State.
“The minister ordered sale of 100 acres of wakf property at Manikonda for Rs 427 crore and the amount went into the State’s treasury instead of the Wakf Board.’’ They also alleged that the minister had received kickbacks from Lanco Industries head Lagadapati Rajagopal.
“In Visakhapatnam about 1,300 acres of land was alienated to the Hindujas when Shabbir Ali was minister of wakf in 1994. At that time the Hindujas were asked to pay Rs 2.25 lakh per acre and they paid about Rs 37 crore for 300 acres. The present regime gave on a platter the remaining 1,000 acres at the old rate, they alleged.
In Vijayawada the previous Congress government had tried to alienate hundreds of acres of wakf land to private persons but had to retreat in the face of strong protest from the minority community.
They completed that job now, the PRP leaders charged.
Basha said Muslim religious leaders had issued a fatwa against Shabbir Ali.
Among the other charges against the government was that it did not issue the caste certificate to a single Muslim student which was necessary for getting the benefit of reservation in educational institutions.
The PRP leaders alleged that Shabbir Ali was a bootlegger and was caught while transporting teakwood illegally and his name was there in the list of those who have a bad history being published by the Lok Satta. He even diverted Haj pilgrims quota granted by the Centre to travel agents, they said.
PRP’s women leaders Nirmala Reddy and Indira Reddy warned film artiste and Congress leader Jeevita that they would had to dig into her past if she repeated personnel insinuations against Chiranjeevi and Pawan Kalyan.
Jeevita was making the allegations to hide the differences in her own family, they said.Ø Kathi Padma Rao challenged the Congress to prove Pawan’s allegations wrong.
“If they can do it, I would gift them a crore of rupees.’’ He pledged that the party would stand behind Pawan Kalyan in his fight against corrupt Congress leaders. The PRP, if voted to power, would constitute a commission to inquire into the corruption of Congress leaders, he said.
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