Union Minister Mr. Kishan Reddy.
Union Minister Mr. Kishan Reddy.
Telangana Elections 2023: Leaders of all parties are campaigning extensively among the public regarding the Telangana Assembly elections. The issue of Muslim reservation has started gaining momentum before the assembly elections in Telangana. Muslim reservation has now become an issue in Telangana also. Union Minister Mr. Kishan Reddy has called 4% Muslim quota in the state unconstitutional. He said that if our government comes to power in the state, it will be abolished.
CM will be made from backward class- Reddy
While talking to the media on Sunday, Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy said that BJP has decided that after being elected with the blessings of the public in the coming assembly elections, we will make a Chief Minister from BC (Backward Class) in the coming time. He said that the party has decided that the 4% reservation in Telangana in the name of religion will be canceled and SC-BC reservation will be increased. He said that by implementing BC reservation, BJP will also do justice to Muslims, Christians and women of different social classes coming under it.
When did Muslim reservation start in the state?
Let us tell you that the first proposal to bring Muslims under the ambit of reservation came in 1960, many decades before the formation of the state of Telangana, when a study was being done on the backwardness of OBCs in united Andhra Pradesh. The study found that some classes such as washermen and weavers were more backward than the Scheduled Castes (SC) on the educational, social and economic fronts. Therefore, the government started including them in the backward classes from that very time. However, Muslims had to wait a long time for reservation. In the year 1994, Congress government was formed in Andhra Pradesh.
At that time the Chief Minister became Kotla Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy. He issued a government order, which included two categories of Muslims such as washermen and weavers in the OBC list. However, the Congress government fell after some time. After this TDP came to power. TDP kept extending the terms of the Puttaswamy Commission for almost nine years.
Then in 2004, Congress once again came to power and an order was issued to treat Muslims as OBC and give them 5 percent quota. From then onwards they started getting this separate reservation. However, now BJP is trying to make this reservation its election weapon. Now it remains to be seen how far this weapon of his will rise in politics.
Let us tell you that voting will be held on 119 assembly seats of the state in a single phase on November 30. The election results will come on December 3.
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