‘One country, one quota impractical’

Leader of Opposition in the TSLC Mohammed Ali Shabbir on Wednesday said that lack of sincerity and political will of the TRS government for promoting Minority and ST reservation has been exposed in Parliament once again.

At a press conference here, Mr. Shabbir and former Union minister P. Balram Naik said that TRS slogan of ‘One Country One Reservation’ and stalling the proceeding of Parliament is nothing but cheating the people of Telangana on the name of reservation.

He also said that KCR and his government was acting on the direction of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah and playing the game, along with AIADMK, on their behalf to avoid the no confidence motion in Parliament.

He commented that the reservation Bill meant for increase of reservation to minorities from 4% to 12% and reservation to ST’s from 6% to 10% was passed in Telangana Assembly and Council in the April – 2017. Instead of implementing the reservation KCR send the Bill to the Central government for the approval of the reservation which is the delaying tactics of TRS government, which has no sincerity in implementation of reservation.

At another press conference, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) chief spokesperson Dasoju Sravan alleged that Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao was enacting the drama of formation of a Third Front only to facilitate ‘crowning’ of his son K. Tarakarama Rao as the next Chief Minister.

Addressing a press conference at Gandhi Bhavan on Wednesday, Sravan said KCR’s sudden move to launch a Federal Front had nothing to do with his plans to enter the national politics. He said KCR’s victory in 2014 elections was accidental and therefore, he is still considered a non-entity in national politics.

He said it was only the rising popularity of Congress president Rahul Gandhi at the national level and TPCC president Uttam Kumar Reddy in Telangana that forced KCR to think about his own political future.