HYDERABAD
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has demanded that the State government get the re-survey of the community census conducted by constituting a Dedicated Commission with experts in carrying out such tasks, since the government has already admitted its failure and is taking up the survey again.
Speaking to newspersons here on Thursday, party MLA and its whip in the Assembly K.P. Vivekanand said the Congress government had insulted about 2 crore people of the backward classes with the faulty caste census taken up with ₹200 crore, without caring for suggestions of the experts.
He recollected how several BC bodies and BRS had demanded re-survey once the government announced the community census statistics in which the BC population was shown as lesser than what it was in the past. He stated that the demand for re-survey by the people was completely different from what the State government was planning to do as the attempt appears to be aimed at adding a few more pages to the survey report.
The BRS MLA stated that several community surveys were conducted across the country but only the one conducted by the Revanth Reddy government had turned out to be a failure. He felt that the survey would stand the scrutiny of law and courts only if it was conducted by the Dedicated Commission acting objectively and independently.
Alleging that the government had convened the Assembly session only for a day purely for political mileage, Mr. Vivekanand observed that AICC leader Rahul Gandhi avoided even a brief visit to Telangana the other day fearing that he would have to face discontent of the people, particularly BCs, following the community survey report.
The government had taken the decision to re-conduct the survey, at least partly, after assessing the electoral prospects of the Congress party in the local bodies elections, if held in the backdrop of the survey report, Mr. Vivekanand said.
Speaking at Jangaon, BRS MLC K. Kavitha said the State government was required to bring in three Bills to implement 46% reservation to BCs in education and employment, 42% quota in local bodies, and 42% in politics to fulfil its BC Declaration made at Kamareddy.
Published – February 13, 2025 06:46 pm IST
