Former Union Minister Balram Naik has said the Congress has given pattas to Scheduled Tribes covering three lakh acres of podu lands and the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) was hell bent on driving away the tribal people from those lands.
At a press conference here, he reminded that it was Congress that brought the Forest Rights Act in 2006 in the interests of the tribal people and no other government had helped them at such a level. He demanded that the TRS government fulfil its promise of enhanced reservation to the Scheduled Tribes and asked them to explain under what procedure the recent announcement of 10% reservation was announced.
