OBCs will get majority of party tickets for local body polls: BJP president
Addressing OBC Morcha leaders here at the State office, Mr. Rao claimed that the 'real' population of the BCs is about 52% but the previous Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had reduced it and the current Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy is further trying to scuttle it by including Muslims in the quota.
It was the BJP alone which has been giving importance to the BCs by having 27 ministers in the Union Cabinet apart from Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself hailing from among them. The BC Commission was formed and given a constitutional status under the NDA government, he said.
But, the former MLC said a conspiracy has been hatched by the Congress to drive a wedge between the BJP and the BCs by carrying out a disinformation campaign just like it had campaigned that reservations would be removed if Mr. Modi was re-elected in the last elections.
Mr. Rao also charged that the socio-economic caste survey taken up by the Congress government was not done as per the constitutional norms. He was of the opinion that it was a mere survey taken up by the government and only constitutionally mandated agencies like the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India are authorised to take up such studies.
The BJP president demanded the government to make the caste survey report public for people to ascertain the facts. The party is not against caste census but said it has to be done in a scientific manner and as per the Constitution. The census next year by the Centre which includes caste enumeration is in that league and once the report is out, targeted schemes can be taken up appropriately, said the BJP leader.
The BJP chief has accused the Congress government of using the BC quota for vote bank politics and said if the Modi government had brought forth 10% EWS (Economically Weaker Section) quota it was done without disturbing the existing SC/ST/BC reservations. Meanwhile, Mr. Rao will be continuing his ongoing district tours and will be visiting Khammam, Bhadradri-Kothagudem and Mahabubabad districts on July 29 and 30.
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