The excavators used by the Telangana government to clear the debris of deforestation after the Supreme Court stopped the logging of trees in 400 acres of forested lands in the area of Kancha Gachibowli, in Hyderabad, on April 4, 2025. Photo credit: PTI: PTI.
The Congress of Telangana condemned the comments of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the theme of the land of Kanca Gachibowli, accusing the Bharatiya Janata (BJP) party or by spreading the wrong information and showing double standards on environmental and development matters.
The Congress declared that the prime minister had been completely deceived by the president of the State Unit of BJP and the Minister of the Union, G. Kishan Reddy, on the subject.
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Prime Minister Modi criticized the Telangana government on Monday (April 14, 2025) for allegedly forgetting their promises and damaging forests and wildlife with excavators. Speaking in Yamunanagar de Haryana, the prime minister urged people to know the difference between two governance models, referring to the controversy of the land Khancha Gachibowli.
In a detailed statement issued in Hyderabad on Monday, Congress said that BJP’s accusations against the state government had no foundation and ignored the bad environmental history of the BJP. He cited the construction of five academic buildings on the Hyderabad University Campus (UOH)) in 2023, opened by Prime Minister Modi, which according to the reports led to the loss of thousands of mature trees without evidence of compensatory aid steps.
The party alleged that the Center led by BJP, through the Ministry of Human Resources Development of the Union, had facilitated the authorization of green coverage on the UOH campus, prioritizing political optics over organic conerns.
Criticization The environmental registration of the BJP, Congress pointed to the data that indicates the cut of approximately a crore trees between 2014 and 2019, and an additional 23 LAKH from 2020 to 2022 for infrastructure projects such as roads, ports and airports. In addition, he accused the BJP of granting special permits to the then K. Chandrasekhar Rao led Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) to assume more than 33,251.18 acres of forest lands for various development projects.
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The part also highlighted the changes in policies, including amendments 2023 to the Forest Conservation Law and the rationalization of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process.
“Although the Central Government of Echorationia expresses on deforestation throughout the country, the central government of Prime Minister Modi has always been prioritizing the development of environmental sustainability. Although the entire nation, it is that it is that it is that it is that it is the firm attitude of the government of loss and zero respect for the environment and the pulmonary space for the people who led to the massive deforestation by the center. BJP-Rulated and on the state of 2014. These changes, Congress said, also contributed to the human-wildlife conflict.
The Congress party said that the BJP government has razed forests in the name of development. Around 3 Lakh hectares of forests were clear since 2014, and 99% of the approved forest authorization requests without rejection.
Requesting responsibility, Congress appealed to the public and the media to question the position of the BJP about environmental and development problems and accused him of prioritization of political decline over sustainable development.
Published – April 15, 2025 10:54 am isth