Hyderabad: Nearly a month after the Telangana cabinet deciding to implement 42 percent reservations for Backward Classes (BC), the state government on Friday, September 26, passed an order to implement it in view of the upcoming Telangana local body elections. This comes even in spite of the bill related to it still waiting for the President of India’s assent.

It it to be seen if the move will meet legal hurdles in the coming days before the upcoming local body elections in Telangana. According to GO MS 09, the Telangana government decided to implement the order based on the one man commission’s (ex-IAS officer Busani Venkateshwara Rao) recommendations to have more adequate political representation for BC communities.

It may be noted that both the Telangana Congress and the main opposit

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