Telangana’s political rivalry over land holdings escalated after Chief Minister Revanth Reddy alleged in the Assembly that former chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao and his extended family control agricultural land far beyond the legal ceiling. The chief minister stated that KCR and his family collectively hold over 439 acres across nine districts, exceeding the 27-acre limit under the Telangana Land Reforms Act, and claimed that KCR’s Erravelli farmhouse spans roughly 700 acres, including nearly 388 acres of government land intended for landless Dalit families. He ordered revenue officials to issue a formal notice to KCR and directed a fact-finding team to inspect the property within a month, while also naming other relatives and their attributed acreages.
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi camp responded combatively, with Harish Rao rejecting the claims, accusing the chief minister of using the issue to distract from governance failures, and challenging him to subject his own family’s assets to the same scrutiny. Harish Rao demanded a judicial probe by a sitting Supreme Court or High Court judge to investigate both the land allegations against BRS leaders and disputes tied to 22-A land classification rules, alongside a review of assets held by Revanth’s relatives. Meanwhile, K Kavitha denied the allegations, offered to surrender any land found beyond her election affidavits, and called for a CBI investigation into the cited properties.
Neither the government’s inquiry nor any judicial probe has been formally constituted yet, leaving the competing claims unresolved as the state reviews decades-old land assignment records amidst counter-accusations of selective targeting.