The political scuffle has increased in the state of Telangana. The decision to abolish Village Revenue Officer (VRO) system in the state has come under strong objection by opponent parties, who said that it's a ‘unilateral decision’. The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have asked that the government should abolish the move as it would lead to further obstacles in revenue administration. The former said that the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government should have discussed the opponent parties and all other stakeholders on dismissing the posts of VROs and other outlines of the new Revenue Act.
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The Congress leaders asserted that the TRS is bulldozing its way as it has the majority in the Assembly. "When such important legislation is being brought, the government should have consulted the opposition. If there were any flaws in the existing system the government could have rectified it instead of replacing it with a new system," he said. Meanwhile, BJP state President Bandi Sanjay Kumar described the move as meaningless. He affirmed that Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao was again trying to favour landlords by scrapping VRO posts at the base of the revenue system.
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He said the Chief Minister had earlier supported landlords in the name of a comprehensive survey of land records. The party asked an expert committee to be set up for studying the intended systemic changes to the revenue system, by including opposition parties, retired revenue officers and experts. Communist Party of India (CPI) State Secretary Chada Venkat Reddy also slammed the KCR government for the unipartite decision to abolish the VRO system.