Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader Errabelli Dayakar Rao on Friday, October 10 criticised the Telangana government for the 42 percent reservation for backward classes in the local body elections.

Addressing a gathering in Warangal , the former Telangana minister questioned the Congress as to why it did not push for the Backward Classes (BC) quota in elections during its 55 year rule in India . He further claimed that the Telangana High Court put a stay on the 42 percent BC quota since it understood the Congress was cheating the public.

Rao added that it is foolishness to conduct the local body elections without the governor’s consent on the 42 percent quota for BCs. He alleged that rural Telangana is suffering due to the incompetence of the Congress.

“The state would ha

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