Hyderabad: BJP leader Dr Boora Narsaiah Goud demanded that the Revanth Reddy government conduct the caste census and provide 42 per cent reservations to Backward Classes communities before conducting the local bodies’ polls, as was promised by the Congress before the Assembly elections.
Addressing a press conference at the BJP state office in Nampally, Dr Goud said that the Congress, in its BC Declaration at Kamareddy, had announced that it would increase the quota for BCs from 22 per cent to 42 per cent in the local bodies’ polls.
He also demanded that the government give legal status to the BC sub-plan and allocate `20,000 crore for BCs for each year for the next five years, as promised. The BJP and hundreds of BC associations will not hesitate to take out the ‘Million March protest’ if the Chief Minister tried to avoid the promise.
Dr Goud demanded that the government allocate 42 per cent of civil contract maintenance works in government departments to BC community memebrs, which he said was one of the key promises in Congress’ BC declaration.
The BJP government had given legal status to the National Commission for BCs, given key portfolios to 27 BC members in the Union Council of Ministers, and provided reservations in national competitive examinations like NEET and Sainik School admissions, he said.
“The Congress always maintained an anti-BC stand in its DNA. First Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had opposed the Kaka Kalekar Commission, the first backward classes commission in the country. Former Prime Minister Rajeev Gandhi too opposed the Mandal Commission, constituted to identify the socially or educationally backward classes to consider the question of seat reservations and quotas for people to redress caste discrimination,” he said.
Dr Goud said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had done great injustice to the nation, which invaders like Mohammad Ghazni and Mohammed Gori had not done, by providing reservations to 41 out of 42 sub-classes of Muslims hailing from Bangladesh through a gazette in 2010 and 77 sub-classes of Muslim infiltrators from Bangladesh, including Rohingyas, through another Gazette in 2012. These Muslim classes have taken away 77 per cent of OBC reservations in West Bengal and helped them enter military and paramilitary forces, he said.
Urging President Draupadi Murmu to remove Mamata Banerjee as Chief Minister since she openly stated to go against the Calcutta High Order, which quashed the Muslim reservations, Dr Goud said the Mamata government has so far given 5 lakh OBC certificates to Muslim infiltrators. “The action of Mumait Khan led the poor Hindus to convert to Muslims for the sake of reservations,” he said.
