Prayers held at Bapu Ghat seeking implementation of 42% reservation for BCs

Hyderabad

The Telangana Commission for Backward Classes held day-long prayers astatine Mahatma Gandhi’s Samadhi astatine Bapu Ghat for the occurrence of 42% preservation for Backward Classes successful section assemblage polls, employment and education.

Commission Chairman G. Niranjan, on with members Rapolu Jayaprakash, Tirumalagiri Surender, Balalakshmi Rangu, and erstwhile MP V. Hanumantha Rao, offered floral tributes to Gandhi’s statue successful the Bapu Ghat premises.

Later, they reached Gandhi’s Samadhi and placed the 4 Bills approved by the State Legislative Assembly astatine the Samadhi. The supplication programme began with the singing of Vande Mataram.

BC Welfare Minister Ponnam Prabhakar, TPCC president B. Mahesh Kumar Goud, BC Finance Corporation Chairman Nuthi Srikanth Goud, and representatives of caste associations, and societal activists, joined the programme.

Mr. Niranjan recalled the events that led to the passing of the bills successful the Telangana Assembly, close from the Commission being designated arsenic a dedicated committee to find the reservations arsenic per the Triple Test laid down by the Supreme Court.

He said the Commission conducted this enactment done a Comprehensive Door-to-Door Household Survey (Caste Survey) alternatively of relying connected the voters’ list. The State Cabinet resolved to behaviour a Caste Survey based connected the recommendations of the BC Commission. Subsequently, the State Legislative Assembly besides passed a solution approving the same.