Former Minister and TDP leader K.E. Prabhakar raised a banner of revolt on Thursday warning the ruling party that it would incur the wrath of backward classes and pay a heavy price if it neglected them in allottment of nominated posts.
Mr. Prabhakar, brother of Deputy Chief Minister K.E. Krishnamurthy, garlanded the statue of Jyothirao Phule near Birla Gate here and led a protest rally organised by BC, SC, ST, Minority Samakhya and BC Joint Action Committee to the district TDP office in Kurnool. Alleging injustice to the BCs in the nominated posts, he resented non-allotment of Rajya Sabha seat to a BC leader.
The former Minister claimed that he had forfeited several posts and spearheaded several programmes for the welfare of the BCs. He demanded proportionate allotment of nominated posts to them.
BC leaders N. Srinivasulu, Lakshmi Narasimha and Seshaphani accused Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu of meting out injustice to the BCs despite promising to allot 33.3 per cent MLA seats to backward classes in the party manifesto.
BC organisations had represented to Mr. Chandrababu Naidu on several occasions seeking allotment of the Rajya Sabha seat to them, but he was apathetic towards the backward classes, they maintained.
No BC was nominated to the Rajya Sabha by any political party, they said. They handed over a memorandum to TDP district president and MLC Silpa Chakrapani Reddy. BC leaders Katari Madhu, Nagaseshanna, Dhananjaya Achari, V. Nagaraju, Makam Nagaraju, K. Balaram, T. Venkataswamy, C. Sunkanna, G. Srinivasulu Goud, Mallikarjuna Reddy, B. Lakshmikanthaiah and Bharath Kumar participated.
Telugu Desam leader K.E. Prabhakar has deplored
non-allotment of
RS seat to BCs
