Another cheating tactic of Naidu, says Mudragada Padmanabham

Kakinada: Kapu Joint Action Committee (JAC) State convener Mudragada Padmanabham has expressed his unhappiness with the state government’s decision of allocating five per cent reservation to Kapus. He said that it was another cheating tactic of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu. He said that if the five per cent reservation bill was passed in the Assembly then he would respond to it.

He said that as elections were approaching, Mr Naidu was indulging in such tactics to attract the voters of different castes and five per cent quota for Kapus was also one of the election stunts. He cited the example that in 2017, Mr Naidu had introduced the Kapus Reservation Bill in the Assembly and later washed his hands off the matter by moving it to the Central Government’s court.

The Kapus were not able to get BC (E) certificates so far, he said and added that the Kapu community had advised the government to bring back the bill from the Central Government and implement the reservations in the state by making some amendments in the Assembly and provide reservations to Kapus. But, Mr Naidu did not respond. He said that Mr Naidu had proved again that he was a liar with the fresh reservation proposal. He said that the state Kapu JAC would meet at Kathipudi on January 31. The Assembly session will begin from January 30 and the Kapus would take a decision on Kapu reservations and also a political decision, after observing the first day of the session.

He said that the Kapus JAC meeting would review their struggle of the past three years and decide on the future course of action. He said that the meeting would be held in 2 acres of land and he would not take any permission from the police department as previously so many leaders like N Chandrababu Naidu, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao or other leaders in the country had not taken any permission when they conducted meetings. He said that there were no separate laws for them and the Kapus.