50% cap on quota will do injustice to BCs

Musheerabad: BC Welfare Association president R Krishnaiah on Sunday said that the municipal law which imposes 50 per cent ceiling on total reservations in municipalities for SCs, STs, and BCs would be challenged in the Supreme Court.

He said that it was shameful of BC ministers and MLAs who remained silent when a bill was being passed to reduce BC reservations for the forthcoming municipal elections. He was speaking at a core committee meeting of BC associations at BC Bhavan here on Sunday.

Speaking to media after the meeting, Krishnaiah said imposing a maximum limit to reservations would provide no security to backward commission. He said that justice would be done to the social communities only when the reservations are provided on the basis of population.

While the central government has raised the maximum limit for reservations from 50 per cent to 60 per cent, the TRS government in the state has been reducing reservations on the pretext of ceiling, only with a malintent of doing injustice to BCs, he lamented.

He alleged that the government has done severe injustice to BCs by reducing reservations from 34 per cent to 22 per cent. Citing total reservations limits in the neighbouring states such as Tamil Nadu (70 per cent) and Karnataka (69 per cent), Krishnaiah said that they would challenge the municipality bill which was passed recently in Supreme Court.

In this era of money politics, only reservations would help in empowering BCs, he opined. BC leaders Gujja Krishna, Nanda Gopal, Krishna Yadav, Anji, Narsimha, Srinivasulu, Narsimha Goud, Mahender, Gajendra Satish and others participated in the meeting.