Hyderabad College Protest A ‘Smoke-And-Mirrors Marketing campaign’ That Ignores BRS Misrule: Telangana Minister D Sridhar Babu | India Information

The continuing protests at Hyderabad Central College (HCU) are being introduced as a righteous battle to guard inexperienced areas. Nonetheless, the ruling Congress occasion thinks that the protests are a smoke-and-mirrors marketing campaign that conveniently ignores the decade-long destruction of Telangana’s atmosphere by the hands of the BRS authorities. 

Telangana’s Industries minister D Sridhar Babu has claimed that between 2014 and 2023, Telangana’s atmosphere was pillaged in broad daylight. Babu claimed that the loudest voices at the moment have been silent when 12.12 lakh timber have been lower, when 11,422 hectares of forest land have been diverted, and when hills, lakes, and biodiversity corridors have been destroyed to make approach for high-profile vainness tasks.

He termed opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi’s claims about defending the College of Hyderabad (UOH) land, if voted again to energy, a joke. Babu known as it hypocrisy whereas reiterating that the Congress authorities has no plans to encroach upon the college land. 

Regardless of this, BRS leaders continued to mislead college students, utilizing them as instruments to serve their political pursuits. By circulating doctored photos and edited movies, they tried to incite unrest on social media platforms. The minister firmly denounced these misleading practices and known as on the BRS to chorus from manipulating college students for political acquire.

“BRS just isn’t preventing for UoH land, college students, or environmental conservation; their actual aim is to disrupt growth, stall industries, and create unrest,” he added.

Reaffirming that the Kancha Gachibowli land is government-owned, he questioned the BRS’s intentions, asking why the occasion remained silent on these land parcels for a complete decade in the event that they genuinely cared. “As an alternative of defending public sources, they handed over land within the surrounding areas to benamis. Their sudden activism at the moment is nothing however political theatrics.” 

The minister shared that one such undertaking was the Kaleshwaram Elevate Irrigation Scheme, a colossal blunder of engineering and environmental planning that value over Rs 1 lakh crore and didn’t ship its supposed outcomes. In its wake, it left hundreds of acres of forest land flattened, displacing wildlife and tribal populations — with not a single protest from at the moment’s self-proclaimed defenders of nature.

“The folks of Telangana are usually not blind. They bear in mind the forests misplaced, the hills razed, and the land offered. They usually deserve higher than scripted outrage over HCU, whereas the actual environmental destruction goes unpunished and unstated,” mentioned Babu.