Hyderabad, Aug. 11 -- Telangana BJP president N Ramchander Rao on Tuesday demanded that the State government provide fair compensation to people losing their land, houses, and other property due to the expansion of the Rajiv Highway.

Ramchander Rao participated in a protest organised by the affected people at Kharkhana and extended the BJP's support to their demand. He said the people were not opposed to development and were cooperating with the highway expansion being taken up in the public interest.

However, he stressed that those sacrificing their property for the project must be compensated at the property's actual market value. He demanded that compensation for the affected people in Kharkhana be increased on the lines of the hike pr...