On the day, the Congress Chief Minister Revanth Reddy presented a caste census report in the Telangana Assembly, the APCC Chief YS Sharmila has also demanded that the coalition government should conduct a caste census survey in Andhra Pradesh as well.
She suggested that the government should determine the number of backward classes in the state’s population of 5.5 crores. She also urged the government to calculate the number of people from weaker sections who are facing caste discrimination. She asserted that BCs should get their share in political, social, educational and employment. She said that reservations should be implemented fairly on the basis of population.
Although the previous YSRCP government conducted a caste census before the elections, she accused that BJP’s adopted son and former Chief Minister Jaganmohan Reddy has suppressed the details of the survey. She lashed out at former CM YS Jagan for conspiring to not release the survey report at the direction of the BJP.
On the one hand, while the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, is demanding a nationwide caste census, she expressed her anger that the BJP is trying to mislead by calling it a conspiracy to abolish reservations. Sharmila advised CM Chandrababu Naidu not to fall into the BJP’s trap.
On this occasion, she advised Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu to immediately conduct a caste census survey in AP as well. YS Sharmila described the caste census conducted by the Congress government led by Revanth Reddy in Telangana state as an ideal for the country and a historic moment. She said that this survey is a compass for the entire country. She hailed that this is a proof of Rahul Gandhi’s vision for the future of the country.
She said that Telangana’s census has revealed shocking figures that 56 percent of the population in the state are BCs, while 17 percent SCs and 10 percent STs. That is, almost 90 percent are people from backward and weaker sections, she said and felt that she believed the same situation will be in Andhra Pradesh state as well.
