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BJP using Muslim quota to scuttle BC reservations: CM
Chief minister A Revanth Reddy accused the BJP of not being in favour of enhancing BC reservations. He claimed that BJP MPs from Telangana were trying to scuttle the 42% quota for the community by demanding removal of Muslim reservation in the state. Revanth is in New Delhi to seek the support of all the opposition parties to exert pressure on the Centre to approve its BC reservation bill in the ongoing monsoon session of Parliament. The 2029 elections will be a litmus test for all the parties in terms of BC reservations, Revanth said. He added that the credit should go to Rahul Gandhi, who raised the slogan of a caste census during his Bharat Jodo Yatra and promised to do it if the Congress is voted to power. The chief minister said on Wednesday his govt made public the population of SCs, STs, BCs, Muslims, and others.
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The truth, he argued, was that economically backward Muslims had been given reservation for a long time in BJP-ruled states like Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, and Maharashtra.
“There is no Muslim reservation at all,” Revanth said while talking to reporters in New Delhi. “Reservations are based on socio-economic backwardness. Be it Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Jains, or Buddhists, they follow their religion, and it has nothing to do with reservation.”
He explained that besides SC and ST, reservation was extended to A, B, C, D, and E categories of socially and economically backward sections in society among BCs in Telangana. “The BJP is only trying to stop the 42% quota bills sent by the Telangana govt using the pretext of religious-based Muslim reservation,” the chief minister alleged.
Revanth is in New Delhi to seek the support of all the opposition parties to exert pressure on the Centre to approve its BC reservation bill in the ongoing monsoon session of Parliament.
The state govt is keen on 42% BC reservation in local bodies, and education and employment.
The chief minister, along with the deputy chief minister, Congress MPs from Telangana, and important leaders, will meet opposition leaders in the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha apart from Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi on Thursday morning. In the evening, they will give a presentation to AICC members from various states on the caste survey and the need to exert pressure on the Centre to approve the two BC Bills.
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“Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birth state is Gujarat, PM Modi’s representing Lok Sabha seat is in Uttar Pradesh, and the RSS national headquarters state is Maharashtra—in all three states, the BJP govt is providing reservations to economically backward Muslims. In an interview, Union home minister Amit Shah said they sere extending Muslim reservations in Gujarat and that they would continue it. Will they suspend Amit Shah from the BJP?” he asked.
“The Centre is delaying approval of the two bills sent to it through the governor by the Telangana govt,” he added. “The Telangana High Court directed the state govt to complete fixing of reservations in 30 days and the entire panchayat election process in 90 days, before September 30. The ordinance sent to the Telangana governor is aimed at removing the 50% cap on overall reservations fixed by the previous BRS govt in the Panchayat Raj Act of 2018, after which a blanket 42% BC quota can be given.
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e added that the 2029 elections will be a litmus test for all the parties in terms of BC reservations. “The credit should go to Rahul Gandhi, who raised the slogan of a caste census during his Bharat Jodo Yatra and promised the people of Telangana to do it if the Congress is voted to power,” he added. “We conducted a scientific and authentic survey. We have our own strategy of making the Modi govt approve the two BC bills.”
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Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy said on Wednesday his govt made public the caste survey findings on the population of SCs, STs, BCs, Muslims, and others. “However, we cannot make public the personal information and data of the individuals as per the Digital Personal Data Protection Act. But the report submitted by the Justice Sudarshan Reddy-led independent group of experts, which analysed the caste survey data, would be discussed in the cabinet and the assembly, and then we will give access to it to the political parties.
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