Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) chief spokesperson Sravan Dasoju has alleged that that Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government was trying to suppress the BC communities by distributing sheep, fish or other tools to the members of the community rather than giving them political power.
This reflects in the unscientific manner in which reservations for BCs was done for the forthcoming Pachayat Raj elections.
Addressing a press conference here he said that instead of taking actual percentage of BC population into consideration the State government has been banking on various estimations to deny BCs their due share.
BC population
He said BCs, comprising 113 communities, are divided into A, B, C, D and E groups. Therefore, reservation of seats without categorisation would cause huge injustice to various small communities which never got any representation in any of the elected bodies in the State.
He said only 34% seats have been reserved for BCs in the new Panchayat Raj Act although the Intensive Household Survey conducted by the State Government in August 2014 has estimated the BC population to be 52%.
Citing figures of last elections, he said of 441 ZPTC, 196 were reserved for BCs. However, as many as 88 BC communities had no representation.
No representation
Similarly, of 434 MPPs, 82 communities had no representation in 206 BC reserved seats. Of 6,490 MPTCs, 3267 were reserved for BCs and no one from 49 communities got elected to the post.
Likewise, of 4,147 elected from BC reserved seats out of 8,692 sarpanches, there was no representation from 57 communities.
There is not a single councillor from 66 communities (898/1453) and 90 communities among corporators (228/408). Of 55 municipal chairmen, 36 were reserved for BCs. Therefore, 99 BC communities had no representative in these posts, Mr. Sravan said.
