Countering the opposition TDP’s declaration to allot 100 tickets to BCs in the next assembly elections, the YSR Congress party has come up with a proposal to reserve 100 seats for them to ensure political empowerment to the Backward Classes. ‘If your intention of standing for the BC cause is genuine, we shall chalk out a strategy for reservation of BC seats to make sure that the Backward Classes represent 100 constituencies in the 294 member house’, Party Honorary President YS Vijayamma said in an open letter to TDP President N Chandrababu Naidu.
Let us join hands in the true political empowerment of BCs’, he added. Earlier, the Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has proposed 33 per cent reservation to BCs in local bodies elections.
Since the issue was pending in the court, the major political parties can sit together and come to an understanding that we can make it, she said in the three-page letter which wasreleased by party BC Cell Convener, Gattu Ramachandra Rao at a press conference here today. ‘This is a revised proposal of Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy. It is not 100 tickets but sending 100 BCs to the assembly that matters’, he said. If two major opposition parties come together on the issue, other parties will fall in line and this will prove Mr Chandrababu Naidu’s sincerity towards the BC cause, he said adding that TDP which made the same 100 seats promise in 2009 elections has given just 47 seats to BCs while YSR has given 67 seats, he said. UNI