Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy accused Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao of ‘duping’ the Muslims and Scheduled Tribes (STs) on enhancing their quota in jobs and education.
Addressing a press conference at Gandhi Bhavan on Monday, Mr. Reddy said that KCR, in his recent meeting with Prime Minister Narender Modi, did not even make a representation seeking approval of the Bill passed by Telangana Legislature to enhance Muslim quota to 12% and ST reservation to 10%. He said that the increase in quota for Muslims and STs did not even figure in the list of issues raised by the Chief Minister before the Prime Minister. He said that the meeting itself had exposed that the Chief Minister blatantly lied on the floor of Telangana Legislative Assembly claiming that Mr. Modi had agreed to enhance the Muslim quota.
“What happened to KCR’s promise of bringing 12% Muslim and ST reservations under 9th Schedule? Where are the tremors which KCR promised to create if Centre disapproves increased quota for Muslims? Why is he not staging a dharna or protest before Jantar Mantar? Why KCR is afraid of raising the issue of 12% Muslim reservation before Modi?” asked the TPCC chief adding that the Muslims and STs would teach TRS a fitting lesson in next elections for the way KCR cheated them repeatedly.
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TPCC vice-president Mallu Ravi, MLAs A. Sampath Kumar and Vamshichand Reddy and other leaders were also present.
Later in the day, Mr. Uttam Kumar Reddy had a live interaction with the party workers through the social media platform Facebook. He asked the party workers to enlighten the Muslims and STs on the cheating done by KCR Government on the issue of 12% reservation. He said KCR’s silence on the issue of 12% Muslim reservation was highly questionable. He also asked them to expose the secret tie-up between TRS and BJP.