Anbumani writes to Chandrababu Naidu seeking 6% quota for Vanniyars in A.P.

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PMK president   Anbumani Ramadoss.

PMK president Anbumani Ramadoss. | Photo Credit: B. JOTHI RAMALINGAM

PMK president Anbumani Ramadoss has written to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu requesting the second to supply 6% abstracted preservation successful higher acquisition and employment for the Vanniya Kula Kshatriya and Agnikula Kshatriya communities successful the State.

“Among communities with a important colonisation successful Andhra Pradesh, the Vanniya Kula Kshatriyas and Agnikula Kshatriyas are notable. Within these 2 broader communities, determination are 15 sub-sects. In presumption of acquisition and employment, the Vanniyar assemblage and its sub-sects stay severely backward. The superior crushed for this is their inability to vie with different communities placed alongside them successful the existing preservation categories,” Dr. Anbumani said successful his missive dated November 29.

“Out of the full 6.5 crore colonisation of Andhra Pradesh, the combined stock of Agnikula Kshatriyas, Vanniya Kula Kshatriyas, and their sub-sects is 9.34%. However, their practice successful acquisition and authorities employment is estimated to beryllium little than 2%,” helium said. In his letter, helium besides requested that a caste-wise colonisation census beryllium conducted and, based connected the information obtained, state the Vanniyar assemblage and its sub-sects arsenic a abstracted preservation category, and allot 6% exclusive preservation to them.

In a abstracted missive to Mr. Naidu, Dr. Anbumani requested Kakinada territory beryllium named aft the precocious acquisition philanthropist Malladi Sathyalinka Nayakar, successful fulfilment of the long-cherished privation of the bulk of the district’s people.

Published - November 30, 2025 07:31 p.m. IST

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