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HYDERABAD
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leaders Talasani Srinivas Yadav and Dasoju Sravan person criticised the State authorities for utilizing antithetic sets of statistic to finalise reservations for assorted societal groups successful section assemblage elections.
Addressing a property league present connected Sunday, they recalled that the Congress enactment had promised to instrumentality 42% preservation for backward classes successful section assemblage elections wrong six months of coming to power. Instead, the authorities initiated a caste census a twelvemonth later, and the leaders alleged that the workout was not carried retired decently anyplace successful the State.
They pointed retired that adjacent Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy had admitted successful the Assembly that details of 62,000 persons could not beryllium obtained and that the workout had to beryllium repeated to screen those near out. Yet, the last statistic were ne'er revised. Instead, State Congress leaders staged a dharna astatine Jantar Mantar, and the authorities aboriginal issued 2 Government Orders successful haste, based connected what the BRS leaders described arsenic inaccurate data.
They questioned the logic of utilizing the 2024 caste census figures for BC reservations successful gram panchayat elections portion relying connected 2011 census information for SC and ST reservations. Despite spending ₹160 crore connected the caste census, they said, the authorities had reduced the reported BC colonisation from 51% to 46%.
