Metro India News | Hyderabad 

Telangana state BJP President N Ramchander Rao today said Chief Minister Revanth Reddy has indirectly accepted his government failure in implementing 42 per cent  BC reservations while addressing dharna at Delhi. Taking a jibe on the utterance of CM Revanth Reddy  yesterday that BC reservations would be implemented after Rahul Gandhi becoming Prime Minister, the state BJP chief  wanted to know from the people and asked whether Rahul Gandhi will become PM?. The meeting venue reverberated with sound of “No- No” from the people.

The state BJP chief was addressing a well attended party workers meeting at Bhongir who arrived the venue in a bike rally from Yadagirigutta. Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyaka Vadra did not attend in the dharna as they knew that this would be a flop meeting, Rao said adding that now Congress cannot implement 42 per cent BC reservations in Telangana. He said Congress dharna at Delhi is not BC reservations, it was a muslim reservation dharna to cheat BC community.

The BJP chief assured people that his party would implement 42 per cent  BC reservation in total to only backward class community in Telangana if voted to power. Emphasizing that the BJP was the only party that has truly worked for  BC community which has made a BC leader Narendra Modi as a Prime Minister, accorded constitutional status to the BC commission and there were 27 BC ministers in Modi cabinet.

He criticised Congress government for its handling with Musi river pollution issue which become a curse on Bhongir farmers. Chief minister Revanth Reddy has promised to clean the river when he visited Yadadri temple on his birth day. But he forgotten his promise as it was practice of Congress party to forget promises made to people.

Rao thanked party leaders and workers for a grand welcome and said a warm reception is a sign that the BJP would be successful in the upcoming local body elections. Earlier, Rao reached venue from yadagirugutta to Bhongir in a procession which was led by a bike rally in which about 500 workers including women  riding on bikes with pillion riders which took three hours to reach the meeting venue.

The Leader of the Opposition in the Council, S. Madhusudhana Chari, stated that his party fully supports the BC reservation legislation in both the Assembly and the Council. "We urged that BC reservations be incorporated into the Ninth Schedule, akin to the approach taken by Tamil Nadu. Congress leaders have not consulted us regarding their plans in Delhi, as our involvement would have revealed their inconsistency," he remarked. 

Former minister V. Srinivas Goud criticised the Congress for providing only nominal representation to BCs. "They pledged 42 percent reservation but submitted an ordinance for the Governor's approval solely for local body elections, omitting education and job reservations. Furthermore, they have only allocated nominal representation to BCs within the Cabinet, he pointed out.