BRS Escalates Fight With Congress Over BC Sub-Plan With Gun Park Protest

Overview

• BRS legislators held a protest on Thursday at Hyderabad’s Gun Park demanding the BC Sub-Plan promised in the Kamareddy BC Declaration, a pledge to earmark large funds for Backward Classes and expand reservations.
• Following the protest, BRS pressed the issue in the Assembly, accusing the government of showing big allocations but releasing little money for BC welfare, with outlets reporting conflicting spend figures that ranged from a few crore to about ₹3,000 crore in 2024–25.
• Harish Rao said welfare corporations barely spent their budgets, citing ₹74 crore spent by the SC Corporation out of ₹5,403 crore over two years and ₹52 crore by the ST Corporation out of ₹2,730 crore.
• Ministers Sridhar Babu and Vakiti Srihari defended the government’s record, urged rivals to join its push for BC reservations, and said court constraints limit any move toward 42% quotas as a committee works on next steps.
• In a separate update in the House on Friday, the government acknowledged it filled 16,978 posts through new notifications and completed 50,785 recruitments begun under BRS, and it confirmed BRS-era progress on housing, sharpening the fight over delivery versus promises.