Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Wednesday directed the state government to constitute a “dedicated commission” — instead of the Backward Class Commission — for collecting empirical data for the purpose of providing reservations for the Other Backward Classes in the ensuing local body elections in Telangana. When Advocate General A. Sudershan Reddy came to know about the order, he rushed to the court hall and requested the bench to recall the order.
However, the bench refused to entertain his request and was firm on the constitution of the Dedicated Commission. The court gave two weeks from Wednesday to constitute the Commission. The court opined that entrusting the work of collecting empirical data to the BC Commission violates the judgement of a five-judge Supreme Court bench, which was followed by the three-judge bench’s order in the Vikas Kishan Rao Gawali case.
The court directed the state government to follow the Supreme Court’s guidelines. Justice Surepalli Nanda gave this interim order in a petition filed by R. Krishniah, former MP, YSR Congress, and the president of National BC Welfare Association, seeking a direction to the Telangana government to constitute a dedicated commission for collecting empirical data for the purpose of providing reservations for the Other Backward Classes in the ensuing local body elections.
B. Shiva Prasad, senior counsel and former advocate-general of Telangana, representing Krishniah, argued that the BC Commission is c.