Working president of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and Minister K.T. Rama Rao has admitted that making a Dalit the Chief Minister of Telangana was one of the few promises that were not kept by the party, but the people have approved the stand by supporting it with a higher majority in 2018 compared to 2014.
Mr. Rama Rao gave detailed replies to several issues raised by newspersons at the meet-the-press organised by the Telangana State Union of Working Journalists (TUWJ) in Hyderabad on October 28. “People and the party have accepted the decision of party chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao leading the administration of the new State for its better progress and the Opposition parties should not have any objection to the people’s approval”, he observed.
On the talk of the Backward Classes (BC) census, the BRS working president said the party had been demanding it along with a separate Ministry for BC communities since 2014. It was in the first session of the Telangana Assembly that the State adopted a resolution requesting the Centre to take up BC census, 33% reservation to BC communities in law-making bodies and also for the women quota within it, he added. However, there had been no response and only for the last couple of months the Congress leadership was reciting the demand.
