GO 29 violative of the Constitution: Harish Rao

Speaking to reporters on Saturday about the ongoing protests by job aspirants against the Congress government's GO, Rao explained that the number of reserved category posts would decrease if individuals from that category secured jobs in the open category under the new GO.

Siddipet: Former Minister T Harish Rao said the implementation of GO 29 in the recruitment process of government jobs in the state would do a great injustice to the STs, SCs, BCs and Minority job aspirants because the GO would deny them a good number of jobs for these sections.

Speaking to news reporters here on Saturday on the ongoing stir by job aspirants against the GO issued by the Congress government, Rao said number of posts in the reservation category will go down if anyone from that reservation category bagged jobs in the open category according to the GO. “The number of posts will be removed equally to the number of people from the reservation category bagging posts in the open category”, he said.

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Rao said that the GO was violative of the constitutional provisions since the open category would mean everyone could get the posts based on merit. Saying that the previous BRS government implemented GO 55, Harish Rao said the UPSC was also following a similar pattern that the BRS government implemented. While Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was touring the nation holding the Indian Constitution, he said the same party’s government was acting against constitution in Telangana, causing a great injustice to the reservation categories.

Even though Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka, a dalit, was at the helm of affairs, Rao said that it was hurting to see such a GO being implemented. He further lashed out at the Congress government on how they dealt with the protesting students. He said the police had lathi-charged students if they were terrorists. Recalling the Congress promises made during the election campaign, Rao said that Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy had failed to keep the promises even after 11 months. He challenged Revanth to visit Ashok Nagar library now to know the issues of job aspirants like he did when he was in the Opposition. Rao questioned the silence of the MLC Kodandaram and other leaders on the issue. He said that Kodandaram, Riyaz, Chitnapandu Naveen, and Akunuri Murali stayed mum because they got the posts.