India, May 2 -- Congress BC leaders visited Raj Bhavan on Thursday to thank Telangana Governor Jishnu Dev Varma for approving and forwarding the state government's Bill seeking 42% reservations for Backward Classes (BCs) to the President of India for assent.
Speaking to the media after the meeting, BC Welfare Minister Ponnam Prabhakar welcomed the Centre's recent decision to include caste enumeration in the 2025 national census and said that Telangana's scientific caste survey had become a national model. He credited Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's long-standing advocacy for making this initiative a reality and praised Chief Minister Revanth Reddy's leadership in ensuring its successful implementation.
Prabhakar outlined the systemat...