Land row: TGIIC officials to be made scapegoats?

After suffering a setback in the Kancha Gachibowli land issue, the Congress government is now trying to wash its hands off the fiasco and pass the blame on to officials of the Telangana Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (TGIIC).

- STATE BUREAU

There is talk in the Secretariat corridors that a couple of senior officials from the TGIIC are likely to be transferred or suspended and made scapegoats in the issue.

To justify its action, the government wants to blame the officials by stating that they had failed in assessing the entire situation in advance. More particularly, the officials are likely to be pushed to the wall accusing them of failing to study the pros and cons before felling the trees and destroying the biodiversity in the contentious lands.

Call it anew diversion tactic of the Congress government or a desperate meas-