Revenue Minister A. Satya Prasad shows the passbooks issued by the YSRCP and NDA governments at a press conference in Amaravati on Thursday.
Revenue, Registration and Stamps Minister Anagani Satya Prasad has accused YSRCP president and former Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy of spreading lies on the land and re-survey issues.
Addressing the media at the Amaravati Secretariat on Thursday, Mr. Satya Prasad said that Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy was trying to “steal credit” in a process initiated by the TDP government during its earlier tenure.
Responding to Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s remarks earlier in the day, the minister said that the re-survey was initiated by the TDP government in Takkellapadu village of Jaggayyapeta mandal in 2018 with advanced technology and amendments to the Record of Rights (ROR) Act notified through the Gazette.
Later, the YSRCP government conducted the resurvey in a flawed manner, leading to 2.7 million public complaints and misused the Land Conservation Act and Section 22-A to facilitate illegal land grabbing, the minister said.
Mr. Satya Prasad alleged that the lands were arbitrarily included in the list of prohibited areas to intimidate the landowners and prevent the sale, benefiting the YSRCP leaders.
He said the coalition government had launched major land reforms, established revenue clinics and removed several properties from the 22-A list. The minister also accused the previous YSRCP government of spending ₹700 crore of public money to print photographs of Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy on survey stones and passbooks. He drew a comparison between the passbooks issued by the YSRCP government and those introduced by the current government.
He said that the NDA government has issued revised passbooks with national emblem and more than 15 security features, adding that the government is looking into revising the registration values in urban areas where there is disparity. However, no final decision has been taken, the minister said.
Published – 22 Jan 2026 21:09 IST
