Promoter blames TD for ‘fuss’ over mining lease

Anantapur, July 23: One of the directors of Obulapuram Mining Company, the firm which was given controversial mining lease in Obulapuram village of D.Hirehal mandal in the district, and one of the promoters of the proposed Brahmani Steel Company in Kadapa district, G. Janardhana Reddy, has criticised the TDP and condemned its attitude alleging that the party was making an issue out of nothing on the mining lease given to his firm.

Talking to newspersons in the Obulapuram Mining Company guest house near the mines late on Sunday evening, returning after cutting short his foreign visit, he took strong exception to TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu’s reported remarks against him that he was a criminal and was earning illegally.

He stated that people of Andhra Pradesh knew very well who was criminal and who had usurped power with the help of a coup against his own mentor.

He alleged that the TDP was making a fuss over the mining lease given to his company by the AP Government only as part of its political vendetta.
Entry illegal

The OMC had taken the lease of Obulapuram mines legally and nobody could enter the mines area without the company’s permission as once the land is taken on lease it would be out of bounds for general public or even the legislators, without proper permission.