Hyderabad: BRS MLA and former minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav on Tuesday urged that chief minister A Revanth Reddy should ensure that a legislation is passed in the assembly to provide 42% reservations to backward classes (BCs), as sending a resolution to the Centre seeking a constitutional amendment will be of no immediate benefit to the BCs.
He also urged the CM to reconsider, reframe, and simplify the questionnaire and reconduct the survey more efficiently so that 100% families would participate in it, as against the 96.9% coverage achieved by the Congress govt conducted caste survey.
“As per our information, not even 30% of the population in Greater Hyderabad participated in the survey. As many as 57 questions were asked. After reading them or coming to know about it from others, many avoided taking part in the survey. A simplified questionnaire and a resurvey will help in covering the entire population, and in turn, it would be helpful to the state during the delimitation of parliamentary constituencies,” he said.
Also, the previous KCR govt, which did a lot for BC welfare, too passed a resolution seeking enhancement of reservations to BCs and sent it to the central govt, but nothing happened. So, the Congress govt should make a 42% quota, based on the caste survey, a law. The Congress promised 42% reservations to BCs in its Kamareddy BC Declaration during the assembly elections in 2023, and it should be implemented, he said.
“Since the cabinet sub-committee chairman N Uttam Kumar Reddy shared brief details of the caste survey, doubts have arisen among the people, particularly BCs, about how their population decreased instead of increasing. How did the forward castes or OC population increase when SC and ST population decreased? Then, several types of statistics are floating that lakhs of BCs died since the 2011 Census and that over 62 lakh people are missing from the Congress survey,” he stated.
“All these statistics floating on social media need to be cross-checked and correct information should be given to the people,” he added.