On the lines of the issue of giving 12% reservations to the backward classes among Muslims in Telangana, AICC Secretary and Telangana Congress leader V Hanumantha Rao demanded that the Telangana government provide reservations to BCs based on their population.
Speaking at the Assembly media point on Monday, Rao said that the State government must increase the percentage of reservations to BCs on the lines of the neighbouring State of Tamil Nadu, as the latter had accorded 50% reservations to BCs, and the remaining to the SCs, STs and other minorities.
The Congress leader demanded that the Centre scrap the creamy layer system and said that the National Commission for Backward Classes had recommended Rs. 15 lakhs as a limit to Creamy Layer certificate, but the Centre had given Rs. 8 lakhs only.
He addressed a letter to the Telangana State Commission for Backward Classes to consider the recommendation of NCBC to increase the income criteria for the Creamy Layer to Rs. 15 lakh in the first instance, which would pave the way for reaching the 27% mark.
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