Hyderabad, March 18 (RAHNUMA): Former Minister and BRS deputy floor leader in Assembly Talasani Srinivas Yadav on Wednesday urged the state government to allocate Rs.20,000 crore for Backward Classes (BCs), citing their 50% population share. He flagged Rs.10,000 crore fee reimbursement arrears, saying delays are affecting students, and called for immediate fund release under the “Jyothirao Phule Overseas Scholarship Scheme” for BC students pursuing higher education abroad.
Participating in the debate on the Governor’s address, the BRS leader while reminding that the Congress party had promised to implement a 42 percent reservations for the BCs, alleged that the government failed to acknowledge the fact that merely tabling a Bill in the Assembly does not grant it statutory validity; rather, such validity was attained only when the Central Government includes it in the 9th Schedule of the Constitution. Failure of the Congress party’s top leaders like Sonia Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi to attend a protest (Dharna) organized by the Congress party in Delhi serves as a testament to their lack of sincerity regarding the welfare of BCs. Even the ministers and MLAs belonging to the BC communities within the Congress party were facing difficulties regarding BC-related issues, he remarked.
