Hyderabad: BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao said that the caste survey taken up by the Congress government had failed contrary to the Kamareddy Declaration promises. Stating that the BC population had been reduced by around five per cent, he sought a resurvey in the next 15 to 30 days.Addressing the media after a meeting with the party’s BC leaders, he said, “Justice can be done to BCs if Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi want it. They can bring in a constitutional amendment towards that. Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has purposefully reduced the number of BCs. We conveyed our dissatisfaction with the Congress’s failure to provide 42 per cent reservation in the Legislative Assembly and Council. The survey is riddled with mistakes and is not worth being written about. No BC will accept it as it renders injustice to them.”Rao informed that the party had aired its voice through Madhusudhana Chary and Talasani Srinivas Yadav.“The BCs and MBCs fear that their share in government schemes, ration cards and housing allotment, among others, would fall, while the Revanth Reddy government is blaming us for their follies,” he said while reminding that the Congress had promised to allocate `one lakh crore for BCs in its Kamareddy declaration.“It has failed to give even 50 paise while the promise was to allocate Rs 50 crore to the corporation of each caste. Around 22 lakh people are missing from the survey. If the government does a resurvey of castes scientifically we will participate in it. BRS had given 50 per cent seats to BCs at the party level. The party gave six seats to BCs in the recent parliament polls. The Congress, after promising 34 seats, gave only 19 seats, of them five are in Hyderabad’s Old City,” he said.On what the BRS intends to do, Rao said, “We will organise protests on the roads at the constituency level. If the government seeks to go for local body elections without earmarking 42 per cent quota for BCs, then we will come up with a major protest programme. Out future course of action will be decided after discussions with our chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao,” he said.
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