Parigi, June 27 -- Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao (KTR) launched a sharp attack on Congress-led Telangana government, claiming that it had promised to issue ownership titles (pattas) for assigned lands, but after coming to power, it is instead taking away those assigned lands.

He alleged that in the name of establishing industrial parks, the government is grabbing lands belonging to Dalits, tribal communities, and poor people. In Pargi too, the Congress government, under the leadership of the local MLA, is allegedly acquiring lands illegally in the name of industrial development.

Speaking during a BRS Constituency general body meeting in Parigi on Friday, he recalled warning two years ago that Congress should...