The BJP will give majority of party tickets to the OBCs in the scheduled local body polls in Telangana irrespective of whether the Congress government promulgates an ordinance or not on providing 42% quota to the Backward Classes, declared party president N. Ramchander Rao on Monday.
Addressing OBC Morcha leaders here at the State office, Mr. Rao claimed that the ‘real’ population of the BCs is about 52% but the previous Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had reduced it and the current Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy is further trying to scuttle it by including Muslims in the quota.
It was the BJP alone which has been giving importance to the BCs by having 27 ministers in the Union Cabinet apart from Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself hailing from among them. The BC Commission was formed and given a constitutional status under the NDA government, he said.
But, the former MLC said a conspiracy has been hatched by the Congress to drive a wedge between the BJP and the BCs by carrying out a disinformation campaign just like it had campaigned that reservations would be removed if Mr. Modi was re-elected in the last elections.
Mr. Rao also charged that the socio-economic caste survey taken up by the Congress government was not done as per the constitutional norms. He was of the opinion that it was a mere survey taken up by the government and only constitutionally mandated agencies like the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India are authorised to take up such studies.
