MLC Kalavakuntala Kavita of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has announced a 72 -hour hunger strike on August 4, 5 and 6, demanding 42 percent political reservation for backward classes (BCs) in government jobs, educational institutions and local body elections. Kavita said that this protest organized under the banner of Telangana Jagriti is the purpose of pressurizing both the state and central governments to pass the Backward Classes Bill. He said that in the fight for 42 percent reservation for backward, our agenda is to ensure that the backward should get political power. “Citing the role of Telangana Jagriti in the past, he remembered that the state government had issued an ordinance by the state government demanding amendment in the Panchayati Raj Act of 2018 by Telangana Jagriti.
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Kavita also questioned the reluctance of the Telangana government in going to court with pending bills and issues associated with the Governor. He asked that when the governor delayed a decision in Tamil Nadu, he went to court and obtained the verdict. Why is the Telangana government not going to court for pending cases with the Governor? Accusing the Congress and the BJP of a secret agreement, the coalition claimed that the alliance was preventing the Congress -led government from taking legal steps in Telangana. He said that due to a secret agreement between the Congress and the BJP, the government of Chief Minister Revanth Reddy is not taking the matter to the court.
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Telangana’s Reservation Bill proposes 42 percent for backward castes, 18 percent for scheduled castes and 10 percent reservation for scheduled tribes, which is currently 29 percent, 15 percent and more than 6 percent respectively. With this, Telangana aims to increase the limit of 50 percent reservation set by the Supreme Court to 70 percent, for which approval of the Center is necessary. Kavita insisted that if it is necessary to pressurize the central government, then the state government should file a case in the Supreme Court. Describing similarities, he said that when some bills were pending with the Governor and the President in Tamil Nadu, the government went to the Supreme Court and got a favorable decision.