KT Rama Rao slams Telangana Congress government for deceiving Backward Classes
Says the Congress failed to introduce a Bill for 42 per cent reservations in the Assembly as promised in the Kamareddy BC Declaration meeting
Hyderabad: BRS working president KT Rama Rao lashed out at the Congress government for deceiving Backward Classes (BC) by failing to introduce a Bill for 42 per cent reservations in the Assembly, as promised in the Kamareddy BC Declaration meeting. He said the government made a mere announcement and avoided taking real legislative action.
Participating in the discussion on the Chief Minister’s statement on the Social, Economic, Employment, Education, Political, and Caste Survey-2024 in the Assembly on Tuesday, Rama Rao said BCs across the State had anticipated that the Congress government would introduce a Bill in the special legislative session to implement 42 per cent reservations in local body elections. However, the government had only issued a statement without taking concrete steps.
“Instead, they issued a mere statement and are calling it historic. BCs will never accept this deception. A mere statement cannot be called historic,” he declared.
In response to Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’s remarks, the former Minister recalled that when the Comprehensive Household Survey (CHS) was conducted under the BRS regime, Revanth Reddy publicly urged people not to provide their details. He pointed out that the CHS was conducted by the previous BRS government and had the authentic numbers of social categories which were placed in the public domain on the government website.
“How can the present government refuse to recognise the data collected in an open and transparent survey?” he asked. Rama Rao explained that according to the CHS, a total of 1.03 crore families and 3.68 crore people participated in the data collection.
The survey identified that BCs make up 51 per cent of the population, which increases to 61 per cent when BC Muslims are included. He slammed the Congress government for manipulating statistics, questioning how the BC population dropped from 51 per cent to 46 per cent in the present survey conducted by the Congress government.
He charged the Congress government with misleading the public by making false promises about BC reservations and the BC Sub-Plan, which was expected to benefit BCs. He pointed out that a Congress MLC had even called for the burning of the current official survey report, raising concerns over the transparency of the data presented by the ruling party. He stated that BC organisations across Telangana were demanding accountability from the government.
