Telangana Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka today alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was working seriously to eliminate the reservations provided in the Constitution for socially and economically disadvantaged groups.
Speaking at a press conference at Gandhi Bhavan, Vikramarka said that BJP leaders were asking for 400 Lok Sabha seats with the aim of abolishing reservations in the country.
"Because of the reservations, the people of the scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and backward classes get access to jobs and education. Unfortunately, the BJP government at the Centre is hatching conspiracies to abolish the reservations," Bhatti said.
Claiming that the wealth, resources and power in the country were now in the hands of a few, and that the majority of the people were not getting opportunities proportional to their ratio in the population, the Deputy CM said that the Congress government at the Centre, if voted to power, would distribute resources equitably to all sections of the people and provide justice to everyone.
"If the BJP comes to power at the Centre, there will be no future for India. The country's democracy is now in danger. The weaker sections of the people should work together and extend their support to the Congress which is working relentlessly for the rights of people," Bhatti said.
He also alleged that there was a "match fixing" between the BRS and the BJP, and that former chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao was therefore extending his support to the saffron party's plan to scrap reservations.
Vikramarka exuded confidence that the Congress would win 14 Lok Sabha seats in Telangana. Condemning the remarks made by opposition parties that the Congress government in the State would be toppled after the Lok Sabha elections, he said that the party had come to power with the support of the people, and that the government would continue for its full term of five years.
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