Telangana Congress on Wednesday clarified that the Revanth Reddy-led Congress government had successfully reclaimed 400 acres of government land in Kanchan Gachibowli through a legal battle in the courts.

TPCC spokesperson Bandi Sudhakar Goud criticised the BJP and BRS leaders for falsely claiming that these lands belonged to Hyderabad Central University (HCU), terming their statements as a sign of ignorance.

Speaking to the media in Delhi on Wednesday, Sudhakar Goud explained that the 400-acre government land was originally allotted in 2003 by the then caretaker Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu to IMG Academies during the united Andhra Pradesh era. However, after coming to power, the then Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy cancelled that allotment and, in November 2006, reallocated the land to the Andhra Pradesh Youth Advancement, Tourism, and Culture Department, he said.

Following this, IMG Academies filed a writ petition in the High Court in 2006 challenging the cancellation of the allotment. In that petition, the respondents included the Department of Law and Legislative Affairs, Youth, Tourism and Culture Department, Sports Authority’s VC and MD, Ranga Reddy District Collector, Serilingampally Tahsildar, and principal secretaries of all the mentioned departments, Goud added.

“If the land indeed belonged to Hyderabad Central University, as the BJP and BRS leaders are now claiming, why were HCU authorities not included as respondents in the case?”, Goud asserted further adding that this fact alone proves that the land in question did not belong to HCU.

He condemned the ongoing political conspiracy and accused the BJP and BRS leaders of misleading the public and provoking students through media misinformation. He revealed that after the High Court ruled against IMG Academies in 2004, the company filed a Special Leave Petition (SLP 9265/2024) in the Supreme Court. Even the apex court upheld that the land belonged to the government.

He stated that the Revanth Reddy government fought a long legal battle in the Supreme Court and succeeded in protecting the land from being unjustly taken over. “Unable to digest this victory, BJP and BRS leaders are now inciting innocent students with false propaganda, which is completely unacceptable,” warned Sudhakar Goud.

Sudhakar Goud asserted that, regardless of opposition, the Congress government under Revanth Reddy would develop the Kanchan Gachibowli government lands into an IT hub.