TDP will give up to 40% reservations for BCs in local body elections, says Chandrababu Naidu

Local body elections are the platform to elevate deserving BC leaders to higher levels, and justice is being done to them without compromising on the interests of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, says TDP national president and Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu. File | Photo Credit: ANI

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and TDP national president N. Chandrababu Naidu has said his party will give up to 40% seats to the Backward Classes (BCs) in the upcoming local body elections, and the results will be considered as the yardstick for the performance of the party leaders.

In a virtual meeting with senior TDP leaders ahead of the local body elections on Sunday, Mr. Naidu said the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) went to the court to deprive the BCs of reservations and to delay the elections, and recalled that by reducing the reservations from 34% to 24%, the YSRCP had done grave injustice to them.