Articles by M Shatrugna

ANDHRA PRADESH All Kapus as BCs Reducing Reservation to a Farce M Shatrugna In a desperate move to garner support for the forthcoming assembly elections, the Andhra Pradesh chief minister has sidelined the backward classes commission appointed by the Congress(I) government itself and hurriedly issued a government order including all Kapus and all Muslims in the list of backward classes eligible for reservation in the state, thereby reducing the whole system of reservation to a farce and an object of ridicule.

for Congress(I) M Shatrugna A quick look at results of the recent by-elections for Kurnool Lok Sabha seat indicates that Muslims and large chunks of the scheduled and backward castes may be moving away from the Congress(I).

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of their meagre resources and lack of wherewithal to produce adequate evidence; they could not fight their case successfully. This happened in spite of popular education efforts by the voluntary agencies working with them for over seven years. Vulnerability of the poor against the power of the state emerges as a matter of serious concern in this case also.