If congress party led UPA is to be credited with bringing OBC reservations bill in parliement , and if its leaders are to be believed for their promises to weaker sections of the soceity for creating political space for weaker sections , particularly in the electoral baston state of Andhra pradesh, reality might tell you another story. the state of Andhra Pradesh known along with Bihar& U.P as state dominated by caste equations with heavy influence of voters belonging to the so called OBC/SCs/ST categories with nearly 75% of population, has another story ! and that is, this election campaign for both Lok sabha and state Assembly is special because , leaders belonging to Reddy community or Reddy caste known as the so called "High caste " category have been allocated a majority of tickets to fight elections , virtually every constituency is witnessing a surge of candidates with surnames called Reddy ......one wonders how a party that harps on secularism and equality in a society is now fighting elections by fielding candidates belonging to one caste/family/ community & how true is the congress party's commitment towards affirmative action and social upliftment of weaker sections ? only time will tell.
But one thing is for sure , with emergence of new political outfits like Praja Rajyam and TRS the political equations tend to get nullified as candidates across the section of the society are being fielded by them , that means the vaccum created by congress of not allocating the desired number of tickets to SC/ST and OBCs party workers is being nullified by TRS and PR parties and upto some extent the BJP.
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