BJP & Cong oppose scrapping VRO system

Hyderabad: Opposition parties, including BJP and Congress, strongly denounced the scrapping of the Village Revenue officers (VROs) system in the state and termed it as a unilateral decision of chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao-led TRS government.

The proposed new Revenue Act is also being brought without consulting any of the opposition parties and other stakeholders, they said.

BJP chief spokesperson K Krishna Sagar Rao said that when making sweeping changes to an institutional framework, the best practice is to initiate thorough discussions with stakeholders, opposition parties and intellectuals through due process.

Stating that KCR is trying to outsmart NTR’s reforms in revenue system, but only with a personal political agenda, the BJP demanded reconsideration of these hasty decisions by KCR-government.

Bhatti Vikramarka, Congress floor leader in the Assembly, said the KCR-government should have consulted the Congress, other opposition parties and all the stakeholders on VROs and other provisions of the proposed new Revenue Act.

BJP demanded that an expert committee be set up for studying the intended systemic changes to the revenue system