OBC quota bills: Telangana CM marches to Delhi for nod

Telangana CM Revanth Reddy in Delhi on Wednesday. PIC/PTI

Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Wednesday led a protest march here demanding Presidential assent for the Other Backward Classes (OBC) reservation bills and alleged that the BJP-led government at the Centre was stalling the bills passed by the state legislature as it was "anti-OBC".

The Telangana Assembly passed the two bills in March to enhance reservation for the OBC to 42 per cent in education, employment and local bodies. "We are pro-OBC. Rahul Gandhi is pro-OBC. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is anti-OBC. We will see how to give this reservation. If he won't give this time, we will defeat him in the coming election. The prime minister is least bothered about the caste census. His intentions are there against OBC," the Congress leader said.

The BJP in Telangana has alleged that Congress, despite promising 42 per cent quotas to OBCs, is now allocating 10 per cent of it to Muslims in the guise of backward classes.Dismissing these allegations as a political stunt, Reddy said it will not save the BJP.

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