Telangana enacts 42 percent BC quota in local body polls with GO
Telangana government issued a GO raising Backward Class reservations in local body elections to 42 percent, surpassing Supreme Court-mandated fifty percent cap on combined quotas for SCs, STs, BCs. The decision, based on a socio-economic survey estimating BC population at 55.3 percent, fulfils a key Congress election promise and enables long-delayed local body elections.