The Telangana Girijana Joint Action Committee on Sunday warned the government of a class war in case the Adivasi-Lambada attrition is allowed to worsen further. The organisation said the government would be to blame in case peace is disturbed in the State.
Former MP and AICC spokesman D. Ravindra Naik and Telangana State Banjara Yuva Sena president Amgoth Ganesh Naik, among others, told reporters here it was time the government intervened and clarified if the aboriginal tribes were made to suffer injustice as was being accused. If so, it should decide whether they suffered injustice in the field of education, employment or other issues like land, the leaders demanded.
They also presented a formula for undoing the injustice, if any, caused to the Adivasis by creating supernumerary posts in the government within the 3% of reservation for STs which lies underutilised. “Of the 6% reservation for STs, only 3% was utilised and the remaining could be used for the development of the ethnic people,” they said.
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Mr. Ravindra Naik blamed the government for failing in containing the tiff between the two tribes. “It is because of KCR government’s incapability to arbitrate that the tribes are fighting,” he said.