Addressing the Council’s ongoing session in Bengaluru on Wednesday, chaired by Karnataka Chief Minister and OBC Advisory Council Chairman Siddaramaiah, Mr. Mahesh Kumar stated Telangana has emerged as a mannequin State in implementing Backward Classes (BC) reservations in step with the imaginative and prescient of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi.
Recalling the BC Declaration assembly held in Kamareddy forward of the Assembly elections, the TPCC chief stated Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah was the chief visitor on the occasion, whereas he himself had proposed the declaration because the then TPCC working president.
He added that after the Congress got here to energy in Telangana, Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy prolonged full assist to the BC reservation efforts, regardless of belonging to an upper-caste background.
He acknowledged that the Telangana Assembly had handed two BC-related Bills, together with one offering for 42% reservations for BCs in native our bodies. “We are going to implement the reservations within the native physique elections after the Governor approves the ordinance,” he stated. Ministers Ponnam Prabhakar, Konda Surekha and Vakiti Srihari have been current on the assembly.
Published – July 16, 2025 11:12 pm IST







