HYDERABAD: Madiga Reservation Porata Samiti (MRPS) president Manda Krishna Madiga threatened to lay siege to chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy’s residence late this night if he would not promise, by 1 am, to lead an all-party delegation to New Delhi to mount pressure on the UPA government to pass a bill in the Parliament on categorisation of scheduled castes.
Addressing MRPS activists at ‘Yuddha Bheri’, a public meeting held by the MRPS state committee, here today, he lamented that hundreds of Madiga candidates, who were selected for various government posts in the state, lost their chance due to cancellation of reservations.
Leaders of different political parties, who also attended the meeting, too demanded that the chief minister should lead an all-party delegation to New Delhi. They criticised the central government for being callous with regard to implementation of the recommendations by Usha Mehra Committee.
CPI state secretary K Narayana and senior TD leader T Devender Goud, who also participated in the meeting, called upon all political parties to unitedly fight for SC categorisation.
They alleged that the UPA government deliberately suppressed recommendations by Usha Mehra panel.”Even as the Commission, which submitted its report in 2008, felt categorisation was needed to uplift status of deprived lot among the SCs and that the benefits of quota were divided judiciously, the UPA government has failed to take a decision on the issue. The MRPS has to intensify its agitation till a Bill is passed in the Parliament,” TD leader Goud said.
TD leader Nagam Janardhan Reddy, Congre s s MP S Satyanarayana, BJP national leader M Venkaiah Naidu, TRS leader Nayini Narsimha Reddy, Telangana Vimochana Samiti (TVS) president Dileep, MRPS leaders Dinakar, Munnagi Nagaraju were among those present.