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T Congress to play minority card
Telangana Congress wants to use the minority card to take on the TRS as it feels that the TRS is using sentiment factor to silence all opposition parties in the new state.
- Alleges that TRS is subverting 12% quota for Muslims
- Govt deliberately put Muslim population at 11%
- This can be cited to challenge quota in the courts
Hyderabad: Telangana Congress wants to use the minority card to take on the TRS as it feels that the TRS is using sentiment factor to silence all opposition parties in the new state.
Making its first move in that direction on Sunday, the T Congress leaders questioned the intentions of Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao in fulfilling the promise of 12 per cent reservation. The party feels that there is a conspiracy to stop reservation by KCR government in connivance with Advocate General Ramakrishna Reddy.
Addressing the state minority convention here on Sunday, T Congress vice-president Mohd Shabbir Ali said that TRS had shown Muslim population in Telangana as 11 per cent in the budget speech. He said this mistake alone would be sufficient for the anti-reservation activists to challenge the 12 per cent Muslim quota in a court of law.
Describing the mistake as deliberate, he asked the Muslims of Telangana to be cautious against such moves and said that the Congress party would fight them tooth and nail.
The meeting was attended by AICC general secretary in-charge of state affairs, Digvijay Singh, and AICC minorities department chairman Salman Khurshid.
Shabbir claimed that the Congress party had revolutionised the lives of lakhs of economically backward Muslims by providing them 4% reservation in jobs, education and politics.
He said the initiative to give Muslim reservation was taken in 1994 when the then Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy Government issued GO Ms No 33 announcing reservation for Muslims along with 13 other backward classes. Within 56 days after returning to power in 2004, the Congress party gave 5% reservation for Muslims in the State. “We strongly contested the case in different courts and ensured that the reservation gets implemented till the Supreme Court gives its final judgment," he said.
Earlier, AICC SC Cell chairman Koppula Raju and others released brochures on ‘Golden Decade for Muslims India - 2004-2014’ and ‘The Journey of Muslim Reservation.’ They also passed a resolution seeking equal representation in party organisation.
