Hyderabad: Affirming that the Kapus meeting at Tuni is apolitical in nature, YSR Congress has slammed Chandrababau Naidu for his unwarranted and uncharitable remarks against the main Opposition Party.
"The January 31 Kapu Mahagarjana at Tuni is being organized by the Kapu community cutting across the party lines and leaders from walks of life would be taking part in it to resolve that the government should revoke the reservations to the community.
It is highly objectionable for Chandrababu Naidu to cast aspersions on our Party accusing that we are whipping passions and are laying in wait like wolves. Such language does not go will with the Chair he occupies and we strongly condemn his tone and tenor," party MLC Ummareddy Venkateswarlu told reporters here on Saturday.
Chandrababu Naidu has been reckless in his speech when he says that if GOs are given providing reservations to Kapu community it may be challenged in the courts.
"It is not such weak and flimsy decisions that the community is looking forward to.
We demand that a resolution to this effect be moved in the Assembly, passed unanimously and mount pressure on the Centre to include it in Schedule 9 which gives the right to increase the reservations to more than 50 % as was done in Tamil Nadu and other states.
Both TDP and our Party have included the reservations to Kapus in our manifestos and TDP has done nothing on the count and when the Kapu community is getting united, Chandrababu Naidu has been casting aspersions on the main opposition party and has passed very highly objectionable remarks", he said.
"We once again reiterate that the issue is apolitical and pertains to Kapu community, who belong to all political parties. TDP has been misinterpreting it with many distortions which we seriously object to.
Reservations to Kapu community is not a new phenomenon and if we trace the history, the reservations were in place even in the pre-independence period. It continued after the nation attained independence, in the separate Andhra state and when Andhra Pradesh state was formed in 1956, Chief Minister N Sanjeeva Reddy had quashed it.
Later, Domodaram Sanjeevaiah had revoked the reservations in 1961 but the reservations were again removed in 1966 during Kasu Brahmananda Reddy’s tenure. When pressure was mounted by the community under the leadership of Mudragda Padmanabham, Chief Minister K Vijayabhaskar Reddy government has extended all benefits of BCs to Kapus, but it was forgotten later.
Chandrababu Naidu should remember TDP has organized a Kapu sadassu was held at Warangal in 1987 and he should observe restraint and refrain from using such uncharitable language. On the other hand he should cooperate and make use of his office to ensure that the reservations to Kapu community will be in place with the support of the Union Government."
