PM Modi ‘hoodwinking’ people with promise of Supreme Court sub-quota

Rama Rao and Narendra Modi

Ruling BRS Working President and Telangana IT Minister K T Rama Rao on Sunday accused PM Modi of "hoodwinking" people with his promise of constituting a committee for empowering Madigas, an SC community, over their demand for categorisation of Scheduled Castes.

Rama Rao also mocked at the BJP saying the national party is not in the race in the assembly polls. PM Modi on Saturday said the Centre would soon form a committee which would adopt all possible ways for empowering Madigas with regard to their demand for categorisation of SCs.

"Committee again means delayed justice. We have resolved in the state assembly long back with respect to SC categorisation...(if) Mr Modi is sincere then he should just implement it. He should not appoint another committee to study. Basically this shows that he is merely hoodwinking people," Rama Rao told reporters.

"Mr Modi can try whatever he can...whatever he would like to...fact is his party is not in the race in Telangana," Rama Rao further said. Modi had addressed a rally organised here by the Madiga Reservation Porata Samithi (MRPS), a community organisation of Madigas, one of the biggest constituents of the Scheduled Castes in the Telugu states.

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He had said "We are committed to ending this injustice at the earliest... It is our promise that we will soon constitute a committee that will adopt all possible ways for empowering you. You and we also know that a big legal process is going on in the Supreme Court. We consider your struggle to be just".