Peoples Telangana

  T. Chiranjeevulu, IAS (Ret) . Founder President BCIF( BC Intellectuals Forum) Recently, some BJP leaders have been commenting that "reservations are being given to Muslims on a religious basis, which is against the spirit of the Constitution."   First, one thing must be made clear — The Indian Constitution does not permit religious-based reservations. That is a fact.   However, the same Constitution used the broad term "Backward Classes." This term is not limited to caste alone, nor is it restricted to any single religion. The Constitution provides the opportunity to identify socially and educationally backward sections within any religion as BCs (Backward Classes).   The Indra Sawhney Judgment — A Clear Directive In the Indra Sawhney (1992) judgment, delivered in the context of the Mandal Commission's implementation, a 9-judge Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court clarified a crucial point — Backward Classes is a classification that trans...

By T.Chiranjeevulu, IAS(Ret), Founder, President BCIF( BC Intellectuals Forum) In the recent political history of Telangana state, the latest gram panchayat elections have stood not as a mere electoral process, but as a symbol of a social turning point. These elections highlighted the political awakening of Backward Classes (BCs), their organized strength, their opposition to dominant politics, and their self-respect. They issued a strong warning to dominant castes. Particularly, the results proved how deeply the BC ideology has penetrated the people at the village level. There are a total of 12,760 gram panchayats in Telangana. Of these, 2,537 gram panchayats in agency areas are reserved for tribals. Excluding these agency areas, in the remaining 10,023 gram panchayats, reservations were allocated as follows: 2,090 for SCs, 714 for STs, 2,186 for BCs, and 5,233 for the general category. In percentage terms, SCs got 20.45%, STs 6.98%, BCs 21.38% (but when calculated against the total 1...