Hyderabad: TPCC spokesperson Syed Nizamuddin on Saturday challenged BRS leaders KT Rama Rao and T Harish Rao to provide survey-wise details of private properties in the Section 22-A list. He said officials would verify genuine ownership claims and correct errors.
Nizamuddin addressed a press conference at Gandhi Bhavan with Hyderabad DCC President Syed Khalid Saifullah. TPCC spokesperson Ram Shetty Narender and Bahadurpura Assembly Incharge Rajesh Kumar Pulipati also attended.
He accused the BRS of misleading people by presenting the entire prohibited land extent as private property. The Congress spokesperson asked the BRS leaders to provide the district, village, survey number, extent and ownership details for disputed properties.
“Do not bring hashtags. Bring survey numbers,” Nizamuddin said. Genuine owners, he added, could approach the government with supporting documents.
Nizamuddin said Section 22-A did not originate under the Revanth Reddy government. According to him, the provision had remained in force since 2007. He questioned why the BRS government retained the system during its 10 years in office.
The spokesperson claimed that about 1.02 crore acres already appeared in prohibited property records when Congress took office in December 2023. Much of this land, he said, comprised State and Central government property, forest land, assigned or Lavani land, shikam land, Waqf property and endowment land.
He said about four lakh acres involved private land. These parcels included properties affected by court cases, government claims and private disputes, according to Nizamuddin. He said calling the entire prohibited extent farmers’ or private land was misleading.
Section 22-A list corrections under review
Nizamuddin acknowledged errors in the records, including cases where entire survey numbers faced restrictions although only part of the land had an issue. Such entries, he said, had created problems for genuine owners.
The government had recognised these errors and opened a correction mechanism, Nizamuddin said. It had also formed a high-level committee to examine complaints. He claimed that officials had removed 47,440 acres from the prohibited category by August 2026.
According to Nizamuddin, the reduction showed that the government was correcting erroneous entries. He also questioned why the previous BRS government had not prepared a clean village-wise list or resolved disputed records during its decade in power.
Referring to the Dharani portal, Nizamuddin raised questions about the handling of disputed properties under the previous administration. He alleged that some land records changed without proper sale or gift deeds. Some disputed properties, he said, continued to remain under Section 22-A.
He defended restrictions on disputed properties until courts or authorities settle ownership claims. Removing restrictions too early, he said, could lead to further transactions and longer disputes.
Nizamuddin also defended restrictions on assigned land given to landless poor families. Such land, he said, should not become real-estate stock. He called for investigations into illegal sales or occupations of assigned or Lavani land.
The TPCC spokesperson advised affected owners against distress sales or payments to intermediaries promising corrections. Instead, he asked them to submit applications and supporting documents to authorities.
Officials would remove a property from Section 22-A if verification showed that the applicant was the genuine owner and the entry was wrong, Nizamuddin said. He also asked KTR and Harish Rao to follow the same process when they received complaints.
The government would examine properties that BRS leaders identified as genuinely private, he said. However, properties belonging to the government or classified as assigned, forest, Waqf or endowment land should retain their proper classification.
Nizamuddin said official records and individual survey numbers should determine the dispute. “Let records decide, not rumours,” he said.
