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BJP
AGAINST RESOLUTION BACKING SC STATUS FOR
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Voices of dissent rose
against a resolution passed in the Andhra Assembly
urging Central Government to render SC status to Dalit
Christians.
After BJP leader G Kishan Reddy, another top leader
lashed out against the Tuesday resolution passed by
Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, supporting
Christians on the Dalit quota.
Reddy had informed the Assembly that injustice was done
to Dalit Christians by the 1950 order, which deprived
them of their social and economic rights, following
their conversion to Christianity. He said it was apt
time to redress the issue.
Strongly opposing, BJP state President and former union
minister Bandaru Dattatreya, criticized the CM and the
Congress government for acting in support of Christians.
Dattatreya said it was vote bank politics and that
reservation couldn’t be shared between SCs and Dalit
Christians. He also argued that Supreme Court in 1986
ordered that privileges extended to SCs were not to be
benefited by Christians.
Even party members of the Opposition leader Chandrababu
Naidu has expressed disapproval over their leader
supporting the SC status for Christians.
Apparently many of Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party MLAs were
absent during the Assembly session. Naidu and
Chiranjeevi’s Praja Rajyam has supported the SC status
for Christians which they said was promised in their
2009 election manifesto.
Earlier, BJP leader Kishan Reddy criticized the
resolution and said it would increase conversion
activities across the state. He alleged that Christian
missionaries would boldly lure the tribal and gullible
people into converting their religion. (Rahul Benjamin)
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