Can’t speak on land issues: Nag
posted on Apr 12, 2013 7:09AM
There are some allegations against Akkineni family owned Annapoorna Studios and ‘N Convention’ lands. Even there are some cases also running in the court on N Convention land disputes. Recently, TDP leader Revant Reddy and Congress leader K.Keshav rao have come heavily on Nagarjuna on the same issues. Instead of responding to their allegations he said that he couldn’t understand why they are targeting him. In his latest interview given to a leading Telugu daily news paper, he gave some clarifications on this issue.
He said “My father was asked to shift to Hyderabad by the then CM of the state late Chenna Reddy in an attempt to shift the Telugu film industry from Madras to Hyderabad and our family was shifted to Hyderabad in 1963, when I was a kid. Later, the government has allotted land for constructing our Annapoorna Studios, for which my father has fully paid the amount according to the then government’s prices. He even formed an approach road to our studios with his own money and handed over the same to municipality. We have all the title documents related to this site, which proves our ownership on it,” said Nag.
Responding on his ‘N Convention’ land disputes case he said “Cases on this land including Gurukul Trust lands are in the court now . Hence, no one including me can talk about this issue. Once, the court clears the case, I can give clarifications on it.”
He said “None of our family members are interested in politics and we have no plans to join politics in future also. We understood that we are not fit for politics. Hence, we prefer to stay away from them. I suggest the same to my sons also. However, if we like any welfare scheme of any government, we have come forward to campaign about it. Earlier, we have worked for ‘Janma Bhoomi’ then campaigned for ‘Arogyasri’ and we are now thinking to campaign on utilizing Solar Energy to overcome the present power crisis in the state. Other than such things we are not interested in politics. We always maintain good relations with all the governments irrelevant of the political parties."