BC JAC warns of protest against Rahul Gandhi visit over ticket allocation


Hyderabad (Same Day): The Backward Classes Joint Action Committee (BC JAC) on Monday warned that it would obstruct Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s proposed visit to Telangana if political parties, particularly the ruling Congress, failed to allocate municipal election tickets to BCs in proportion to their population.

Addressing a media conference at Abhinand Grand Hotel here, BC JAC chairman Jajula Srinivas Goud said BCs constituted nearly 56% of the State’s population and demanded that the same proportion be reflected in the allotment of party tickets in the forthcoming municipal elections. The meeting was chaired by BC JAC co-chairman Uppari Shekhar Sagara, present.

Mr. Srinivas Goud accused the Congress of reneging on assurances made before coming to power. He recalled that during the Bharat Jodo Yatra and the Telangana Assembly elections, Rahul Gandhi had repeatedly promised caste enumeration and equitable representation, which, he alleged, helped the party secure BC votes. “After assuming power, the Congress has failed to honour those commitments and is now proceeding with local body elections without addressing BC reservations,” he said.

He further alleged that while the Congress leadership had earlier indicated that 42% of tickets would be allotted to BCs if constitutional reservations were not feasible, the issue had been conspicuously ignored as elections approached. “If the party is sincere, it should go beyond 42% and allot 56% of tickets in line with the caste survey conducted in Telangana,” he said.

The BC JAC chairman also accused both the ruling and opposition parties of deliberately diverting attention from the BC reservation issue by highlighting controversies such as SIT probes and the Singareni scam. He said such issues were being used to dilute the momentum of the BC reservation movement.

Demanding immediate clarity, Mr. Srinivas Goud called upon Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and TPCC president Mahesh Kumar Goud to spell out their stand on BC representation in the municipal polls. If reservations could not be implemented legally, he said, the Congress must at least fulfil its political promise by allotting, on a population basis, 68 municipal chairperson posts and around 1,150 councillor or corporator positions to BCs.

Warning of political consequences, he said failure to do so would render the Congress “politically irrelevant” in the future. Several BC leaders and representatives of BC welfare, student and youth organisations attended the meeting.

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