Telangana Minister Jupally Krishna Rao on Thursday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party and Bharat Rashtra Samithi, calling them “enemies of backwards communities.”

The Minister’s reaction came after the Telangana High Court allowed petitions challenging the state government’s order providing 42 per cent reservation to the Backward Classes in local bodies, and granted an interim stay on the notification for local body elections.

Rao alleged that the BRS was behind the petitions challenging the 42 per cent reservation order. He also attacked the BJP for not providing Constitutional protection to the BC reservation increase by including it in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution.

“The BJP is not including this in the Ninth Schedule and is not ready to bring a constitutional amendment. And

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