Terming the transfer of land as “arbitrary”, Gurumoorthy has said in his PIL, “The government’s IT&GCC Policy 4.0 (G.O. 9) and LIFT Policy 4.0 (G.O. 32) alienate public resources without enforceable state rights. These policies were put in place with the deliberate design to alienate valuable public resources to private parties under arrangements that are devoid of any enforceable obligations on the allottee or the creation of enduring benefits for the State.” The PIL was admitted on Wednesday and the court directed the government to file a reply. TDP called the move anti-investment and anti-development. Andhra Pradesh IT and electronics minister Nara Lokesh took to microblogging site X to lash out at YSRCP and said, “Anti-development Jagan strikes again! First you opposed Amaravati. Then you cancelled power contracts. Then you filed PILs against job-creating IT development centres. Now @YSRCParty has gone to court against the @Google AI Hub in #Vizag. India’s largest FDI investment. @ysjagan, why this hatred for AP’s youth and development? Sorry but Andhra Pradesh has moved on. Development will not stop.”
Gurumoorthy hit back and said the minister was trying to spread misinformation as his PIL did not challenge the land allotment made to Raiden Infotech (subsidiary of Google) and he was challenging the legality of the two policies. “The mention of Raiden Infotech, along with several other land allotments, is made in paragraph 22 of the petition only for the purpose of drawing the attention of the Court to the manner in which the framework enables the allotment of land in an arbitrary and illegal manner. Paragraph 22 also contains a clear and unambiguous stipulation conveying that the allotments mentioned are not challenged as isolated executive actions but are only mentioned for illustrative purposes,” YSRCP MP said.
