Tribal reservations: TRS to move privilege motion in Parliament over Centre 

Hyderabad: The Centre’s denial of receiving any proposal from the Telangana government seeking an increase for the reservation of Scheduled Tribes to 12 per cent in Lok Sabha on Monday, kicked off a fresh row in the State. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) on Tuesday has not only demanded for the removal of union Minister […]

Hyderabad: The Centre’s denial of receiving any proposal from the Telangana government seeking an increase for the reservation of Scheduled Tribes to 12 per cent in Lok Sabha on Monday, kicked off a fresh row in the State. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) on Tuesday has not only demanded for the removal of union Minister of State for Tribal Affairs Vishweshwar Tudu from the post for his blatant lies in the Parliament, but also decided to move a privilege motion against the union Minister in this regard on Wednesday.

The TRS also called the party cadres and the tribals to organise funeral processions of the BJP effigies in all tribal hamlets and universities in the State as a mark of protest.

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Replying to a question raised by Congress MP N Uttam Kumar Reddy in the Lok Sabha on Monday, union Minister Bishweshwar Tudu said that the Tribal Affairs Ministry has not received any proposal from the Telangana government seeking an increase for the reservation of Scheduled Tribes to 12 per cent.

Condemning the statement made by the union Minister in the Parliament, Finance Minister T Harish Rao said the former had insulted the tribals by denying the fact that the State government did not send any proposals for increasing the ST reservations. “The Telangana State Assembly has passed an unanimous resolution to increase the ST reservations and sent it to the union government. Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao had written twice to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while Tribal Welfare Minister Satyavathi Rathod and the officials wrote numerous letters to the Centre in this regard. Rather than approving it, the union Minister had spelled out blatant lies misleading the House as well as tribals in the State,” he said.

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