Citing the Anantharaman Commission report, the petitioners argued that sub-classification within BCs was essential to ensure equitable representation.

xHyderabad: A third writ petition has been filed before the Telangana High Court seeking suspension of GO Ms. No. 9, dated September 26, which grants 42 per cent reservation to the Backward Classes (BCs) community in the upcoming panchayat raj elections.

The latest petition, moved by S. Laxmaiah, general secretary of the Sri Madiwala Machadeva Rajakula Sangham, Dharur, Vikarabad district, and C. Shanthappa, advocate from Hyderabad, contended that the state government had failed to allocate category-wise reservations for the BCs communities — under A, B, C, D, and E groups — as mandated under Section 9(4) of the Telangana Panchayat Raj Act

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