BRS delegation meets Chief Secretary, pushes for 42 per cent quota for BCs

Elections must be conducted only after Congress government fulfils the promise made to the community, say party leaders

HYDERABAD: A delegation of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLAs, MLCs and former Ministers submitted a representation to Chief Secretary A Santhi Kumari demanding implementation of 42 per cent reservation to BCs in local body elections and wanted the elections to be conducted only after fulfilling the promise made to the community.

It has been 14 months since the Congress government came to power but the Kamareddy Declaration was yet to be implemented. The Planning Department conducted the Socio, Economic, Educational, Employment, Political and Caste Survey in an unscientific manner, depriving the rightful share of the BCs, they said in the representation.

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Leader of Oppositon in the Legislative Council Madhusudhana Chary slammed that the Congress government was not committed towards the welfare and development of the BCs. If it was committed, a re-survey should be conducted and implement the reservations to the BCs as was being done in Tamil Nadu, he said at the Secretariat media point on Saturday.

Former Minister V Srinivas Goud said after having failed in fulfilling the guarantees assured to the people, the Congress government was ruining all sectors in the State. Farmers, builders and weavers were committing suicides, and the poor were struggling to make both the ends meet, he said. The Congress government through the survey was humiliating the BCs. It was hatching conspiracies to ensure that BCs do not emerge as political power in the State, besides pitting communities against each others like Muslim reservations in BC categories, the former Minister slammed.

“We will fight our rights till justice is delivered,” Srinivas Goud said, challenging the Congress government to put the Samagra Kutumbha Survey details, especially the BCs population percentage, in public.

Former Minister G Kamalakar, MP V Ravichandra and others also spoke.