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 Nagesh Bhushan Chuppala  In Telangana’s gram panchayat elections, conducted in three phases throughout December 2025, candidates from the Backward Classes (BCs) have emerged as the unequivocal victors, claiming a disproportionate share of sarpanch positions despite meagre formal reservations. With some 12,700 villages voting in contests ostensibly devoid of party symbols, BC aspirants secured between 40% and 50% of posts overall—vastly surpassing the 17% quota constrained by protracted legal disputes—and seized more than half the open-category seats long monopolised by upper castes. This remarkable advance, evident across districts from Adilabad to the southern plains, bespeaks a deepening political consciousness among BCs, who constitute more than half the state’s populace yet have historically been marginalised by the established political order. A sustained two-year agitation for 42% reservations, a comprehensive caste census and broader social equity seems to have borne frui...

Freedom from Economic Exploitation for BCs?   T. Chiranjeevi (IAS, Retired) In India today, economic inequalities are alarmingly increasing. The rich are becoming richer, and the poor are becoming poorer. Wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few, transforming the democratic nation into an oligarchy ruled by a select wealthy group. Historically, for the past 3,000 years, the Indian Varna system has deprived the majority of Shudras (present-day BC castes) of property ownership. Manusmriti’s lament! 8.417: “A Brahmin can unhesitatingly take the wealth of a Shudra if he needs it; for a Shudra has no right to own property.” While modern education and constitutional rights offer everyone the opportunity to acquire property, even after 77 years of independence, BCs, SCs, and STs have not achieved economic progress and continue to be suppressed. The deeply entrenched Varna and caste systems are the primary reasons. According to Marxist theory, the economic system is a substructure upon...