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The Telangana Assembly is set for a heated debate on Caste Survey in the special session convened by the government today (Tuesday). BRS has already red flagged the survey stats, pertaining to percentage of BCs population highlighting contradictory figures from their survey to that of the government's data.

CM Revanth Reddy is expected to go all guns blazing at the opposition benches questioning their commitment to BCs and other sections for not taking any steps for a census all this while. Meanwhile, the gauntlet has been thrown already by the Congress government daring BRS Chief K Chandrashekar Rao to attend the one-day special session if he wants justice to be done for BCs.

The State cabinet will meet on Tuesday 10 am, in meeting hall in assembly to deliberate on the report. Later the report will be tabled in the assembly. The secretary to the state legislature said in a letter that the Assembly Speaker has convened a meeting of the Assembly on February 4. The session will commence at 11 am.

It may be noted that Congress government’s comprehensive Socio-Economic, Educational, Employment, Political and Caste (SEEEPC) Survey was an election promise made by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and conducted over 50 days, starting on November 6, 2024.

The state planning department, which conducted the survey, submitted its report to the Cabinet sub-committee headed by Civil Supplies Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Sunday. According to the caste survey, Backward Classes (BCs), excluding Muslim minorities, form the largest group, constituting 46.25 per cent of Telangana’s total 3.70 crore population.

The BC population is followed by Scheduled Castes (SCs) at 17.43 per cent, Scheduled Tribes (STs) at 10.45 per cent, backward classes among Muslims at 10.08 per cent, Other Castes (OCs) at 13.31 per cent, and OCs among Muslims at 2.48 per cent. 

In terms of absolute numbers, the SC population stands at 61,84,319, STs at 37,05,929, BCs (excluding Muslim minorities) at 1,64,09,179, BCs among Muslim minorities at 35,76,588, and Muslim OCs at 8,80,424. The total Muslim population in the state is 12.56 per cent, Uttam Kumar Reddy said on Sunday. The total number of households in the state is 1, 15, 78,457, while 1, 12,15,134 households were surveyed.