In a bid to promote more partymen from the Kapu and BC community for “leadership” roles in the party and government, some of these community leaders have decided to pressurise the AICC leadership.
They argue that a change from the “traditional” leadership of powerful castes would help the party in ensuring victory in 2014 Assembly elections.
After the Kadapa bypolls are over, they want to meet the AICC leaders, Mr Ahmed Patel and Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, to put forth their demand of handing over the reins to BCs so that the Congress will have an advantage over the Telugu Desam and the YSR Congress.
The main proponent of this theory is the transport minister, Mr Botsa Satyanarayana, who is supported by ministers belonging to Kapu and BC communities.
“There is no point in allowing the same powerful castes at the helm of affairs in the party. It is not going to be beneficial anymore. As a major chunk of the powerful castes have started associating with the former MP, Mr Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, another potential caste is with the TD already. Unless the Congress gives priority to the BCs who are not promoted by any party till now, it will be difficult for the party to come to power again,” a senior minister told this newspaper.
In fact in the Kadapa bypolls, several ministers belonging to the BCs and Kapus, were sent to woo the voters of these communities.
A minister from Guntur district told this newspaper, “We found more than 90 per cent of the voters belonging to one particular community have left the Congress and joined the YSR Congress. We started talking to people from other communities who have somehow managed to work for the Congress and we were successful to large extent.”
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http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/hyderabad/bc-kapu-leaders-seek-%E2%80%98better%E2%80%99-roles-210
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