Adilabad: BC body chief calls for nationwide movement seeking 42 pc reservations

Backward Communities (BC) Sangham State president Srinivas demanded the Congress to realise its poll promise to offer 42 percent of reservations to BCs in educational opportunities and government jobs

Adilabad: Backward Communities (BC) Sangham State president Jajula Srinivas Goud called members of the communities for launching a nationwide movement if a bill with regard to 42 percent of reservations to BCs was not approved by the Parliament. He was speaking at a round table meeting over the future course of action by BCs in Adilabad on Tuesday.

Addressing participants, Srinivas demanded the Congress to realise its poll promise to offer 42 percent of reservations to BCs in educational opportunities and government jobs. He flayed the Centre for delaying the approval of the bill citing the merger of 10 percent reservations to Muslims in BCs. He also asked the union government to amend the Bill and to ensure it was passed in the Parliament before getting the nod of President of India.

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Srinivas wanted enhancement of the reservations on the lines of Tamil Nadu which raised the reservations to the poor, based on 56 percent of BCs in population found in a recent community census carried out in Telangana. He wondered as to how it was rational to allocate 10 percent reservations to EWS who account for 9 percent of the population of the country.

He said that a stir would be intensified to achieve the 42 percent reservations to BCs and their rights. A national-level plenary meeting would be conducted in Hyderabad in May by inviting 1,000 representatives from 29 States.