‘More quota for BCs, 12% for Muslims’
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy on Friday demanded the implementation of 12 per cent quota each for Muslims and STs as promised by the Telangana Rashtra Samiti in its 2014 election manifesto.
Addressing a press conference in Gandhi Bhavan, Mr Reddy asked Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao to explain why the TRS government has failed to implement reservations for the last three years.
“The Congress demands 12 per cent quota for Muslims and STs. KCR should explain why it took three years for the government to act on reservations, which it promised in the election manifesto. Now the government is leaking information that the quotas will be less than 12 per cent. We will expose the TRS government’s double standards on reservations,” Mr Reddy said.
The Congress has also demanded an increase in the reservation for BCs and dalits in proportion to their population.
After the TPCC executive meeting held at Gandhi Bhavan on Friday, Mr Reddy demanded that the state government remove the obstacles caused by the creamy layer for BCs in availing reservations and sought the inclusion of valmiki boyas and khaita lambadas in the list of STs.
TPCC vice president Mallu Ravi accused the TRS government of cheating dalits over the allotment of three-acre farm land as promised during the elections.
He said the TRS chief had promised to make a Dalit as the first CM of Telangana state but backtracked later and cheated dalits. He questioned why the government was not sanctioning funds for 2BHKs for poor.