BRS tears into Congress over 42 per cent BC quota GO

Senior BRS leaders have launched a scathing attack on the Revanth Reddy-led Congress government following the High Court’s stay on local body polls. They accused the government of misleading backward class communities with a legally weak GO promising 42 percent reservation.

Hyderabad: Senior BRS leaders came out lambasting the Revanth Reddy government on Thursday after the High Court issued a stay on local body polls, accusing the ruling party of deceiving backward class communities with its theatrics on the 42 per cent reservation promise.

They demanded that the government initiate immediate measures to safeguard the interests of the BCs and persuade the Centre to get Presidential assent for the bills passed in the Telangana Legislative Assembly.

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Former Minister T Harish Rao dismissed the GO as another unfulfilled promise akin to the Congress’s six guarantees. He said instead of sincerely pursuing constitutional procedures to secure enhanced BC reservations, Revanth Reddy chose to stage street-level theatrics. He demanded that the Chief Minister lead an all-party delegation to Delhi to push for a constitutional amendment.

“If you are sincere, take the fight to Delhi and include the quota in the Ninth Schedule. BRS will join you there,” he affirmed.

Addressing a separate press conference at Telangana Bhavan, former Minister Gangula Kamalakar lashed out at the Revanth Reddy government, accusing it of duping BCs by rushing a legally vulnerable GO to grant 42 per cent reservation in local bodies. He said the GO was always doomed to fail unless the issue was pursued constitutionally in Delhi.

Citing Tamil Nadu’s 1992 precedent, he urged the Chief Minister to lead an all-party delegation to Delhi to secure a legal amendment.

“If the Chief Minister is sincere, he should go to Delhi and not return until the reservation is legalised,” he said, warning that failure to do so would provoke serious public consequences.

Former Minister V Srinivas Goud termed the GO as political theatre engineered to placate BC voters ahead of local polls. He accused the Congress government of issuing the order knowing it would be legally vulnerable and of sidelining petitioners and experts. “Who do they think they are fooling?” he asked.

MP Vaddiraju Ravichandra described the GO as a fraudulent exercise that had inflamed BC anger. MLC Dasoju Sravan accused the government of deceiving people by putting dust in the mouths of BCs” and demanded accountability for ministers who, he alleged, misled voters. BRSLP whip KP Vivekanand said the High Court stay merely vindicated BRS warnings that the government’s approach was unscientific and legally flawed.