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GO 610: VHR cautions Andhra leaders to cooperate
Special Correspondent
| Threatens to join the agitation for a separate Telangana |
Reservation quota increase sought for SCs
Plan in view of 4 per cent quota for Muslims
HYDERABAD: Senior Congress leader V. Hanumanth Rao here on Wednesday threatened that he would be forced to join the agitation for separate Telangana if party leaders from Andhra leaders continued to make provocative statements supporting the agitations of the Andhra NGOs.
Mr Rao met Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy to bring to his notice how a Congress MP had not only participated recently in the dharna organised by the Andhra NGOs but issued “some inflammatory statements.”
He told the Chief Minister that the agitations by the Andhra NGOs and backing to them by elected representatives were “both unwarranted” as the Government was implementing GO 610 without subverting the interest of any region.
Appeal to leaders
Speaking to reporters later, he appealed to Andhra leaders to cooperate with the Government in implementing the GO. “Then there will not be any Telangana sentiment or law and order problem.”
Mr Rao pleaded with the Chief Minister to increase the reservation for Backward Classes to 29 per cent from the present 25 per cent in view of his plan to go ahead with 4 per cent quota for Muslims.
If Muslims were to be provided 4 per cent out of the present 25 per cent of the Backward Classes, the latter would suffer.
On the speculations that he might be the next APCC President, he said:” It is too early to say anything at this stage. I continue to be a dedicated soldier with or without position”.
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