BRS leader hits back at CM for comments on BC quota, KCR
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader and former minister Vemula Prashanth Reddy has condemned the comments of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy against former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao and on the Backward Classes (BRS) reservation enhancement issue.
Accusing the Congress and Mr. Revanth Reddy of betraying the BC communities after getting their votes in the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections with the help of BC Declaration, the BRS leader said in a statement on Friday that the former was enacting a drama now on the reservation enhancement issue after realising that it was not possible for his government to do so.
In the name of 42% reservation to BCs, the Chief Minister had been enacting a drama first in the name of BC Bills, later in the name of Ordinance and now in the name of 'dharna' in New Delhi. Mr. Revanth Reddy had washed off his hands of the matter by blaming it on the Centre and the Prime Minister. Mr. Prashanth Reddy said and asked why AICC leaders Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge who were at a stone's throwaway from the protest site did not participate in it, if the party was sincere.
On the argument of Mr. Revanth Reddy that his government would achieve 42% quota to BCs by making Rahul Gandhi as the Prime Minister, the BRS leader sought to know whether the Chief Minister was planning to put-off the elections to local bodies till then. On Mr. Revanth Reddy's comments that KCR had imprisoned himself in the farmhouse-jail, the BRS leader asked the former to recollect the past as to who had spent time in jail.
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