Conspiracy to stop Muslim reservation’ alleges Shabir NOV 05 : Deputy CLP leader in Legislative Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir has alleged that TRS Government has hatched a larger conspiracy through Budget Speech to avoid giving 12% reservation to Muslims in Telangana State. Speaking to media persons after the presentation of Telangana’s first budget by Deputy Chief Minister Dr T Rajaiah in the Legislative Council here on Wednesday, Shabbir Ali said that the TRS Government had deliberately mentioned in the budget speech that minorities constitute nearly 11% of the total population in the State. This figure is completely wrong as according to 2001 Census, the minorities constitute about 12.4% of the total population. This is not typographical error, but part of a larger conspiracy to stop Muslim reservation. During election speeches, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao and other TRS leaders claimed that Muslims constituted nearly 14-15% of the total population. However, in the State’s first budget speech, the TRS Government not only skipped the mention of 12% Muslim reservation, but quoted minorities’ population as nearly 11%. This would create legal hurdles and this budget speech would be referred in the court challenging 12% reservation for a community which constitutes just 11% of the total population, Shabbir Ali said. He also suspected that the role of Advocate General Ramakrishna Reddy in creation of this deliberate error so as to stop Muslim reservation in the State. It may be mentioned Ramakrishna Reddy had represented cases against 4% Muslim reservation in the courts in the past and the Congress party had objected to his appointment to the post of Advocate General after the formation of Telangana State. The Congress leader demanded that the State Government withdraw the population percentage of minorities mentioned in the budget and replace the same with the real figure, based on 2011 Census. The promise of giving 12% reservation to Scheduled Tribes also found no mention in the budget speech. Also, there is no mention as to from which academic year the KG to PG free education scheme would be implemented. Shabbir Ali also slammed the government for confining the figure of Telangana martyrs to 459 as against the previous claims of more than 2,000. He expressed regret that the government did not even bother to re-verify the list even after one widow of a Telangana martyr attempted suicide in Telangana. Similarly, there is just a passing remark on the suicide of farmers with no mention of financial assistance to be given their families. He also ridiculed the claim made in budget speech of Telangana generating 20,000 MW of power in the next five years. Challenging the Chief Minister on the issue, he offered to resign from his post, if the TRS Government generates even 4,000 MW of power in the next four-and-a-half years of its regime. He said KCR should accept the challenge and say what he would do if he fails to generate 20,000 MW in the next five years. Overall, Shabbir Ali said that the budget was anti-people, anti-poor and completely out of focus and without any direction. He said that the Congress party would grill the TRS Government on all the issues concerning common people.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 18:24:56 +0000
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