V Hanumantha Rao writes to PM Modi on quota in private jobs

Hyderabad: Stating that there has been a decrease in public sector recruitments, senior Congress MP V. Hanumantha Rao has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking reservations in the private sector and also in the Judiciary.

Mr Rao wrote that he had written several times earlier and had even made an appeal by personally meeting the PM, but nothing visible has been done in this respect.

Revealing details of his letter to the media at the Gandhi Bhavan on Wednesday, the MP said if one goes into the nitty-gritty of the appointment of judges, so far 43 Chief Justices of Supreme Court had worked since Independence and except for one instance each, there has been no CJI from OBCs and SCs, he wrote.

Similarly, among the 219 Supreme Court judges appointed so far, there were only five OBCs and four SCs. As per a survey report, 850 judges were appointed in 21 High Courts in the country. While there were 31 judges from the SC community in seven High Courts, in the remaining 14 High Courts, there was no representation by SCs.

Even in respect of Private Corporate Boards, of the 9,052 directors, 8,387 are from upper castes, Mr Rao said, adding that he, along with other leaders, will start a nation-wide agitation demanding reservations for suppressed sections of the society in all the private and judiciary appointments.

Congress seniors sore over panels
Congress senior leaders are making known their displeasure at the goings-on in the party these days.

Recently, senior MP V. Hanumantha Rao had complained about the oversized 31-member Telangana Congress Coordination Panel, and on Wednesday, another senior leader, MLC Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy spoke out over the absence of leaders from Khammam district in the PCC Executive.

Mr Sudhakar Reddy met TPCC chief N. Uttam Kumar Reddy and senior leaders K. Jana Reddy and Shabbir Ali, and threatened that he would resign over the way the party committees were constituted without seniors being consulted.

It is learnt Mr Uttam Kumar Reddy told him that even he was not consulted over the composition of the committees, though a few senior leaders were summoned to Delhi and their suggestions sought.

At one stage, Mr Sudhakar Reddy alleged that he had information that Mr Uttam Kumar Reddy spoke to the Chief Minister on allocating some projects to YSR Congress MP Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy.

Mr Uttam Kumar Reddy challenged the MLC to prove his allegation and if done, he would quit politics permanently. This forced Mr Sudhakar Reddy to withdraw his allegation, saying that someone fed him with wrong information.

The MLC deplored the way former minister V. Venkateswara Rao was excluded from the list ostensibly at the behest of MP Renuka Chowdary and TPCC working president Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka.

“Without these seniors, how can I continue in the party post? How would I be able to work?” he asked. The TPCC chief assured him that he would take up the matter with high command.