Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC K Kavitha on Monday, August 4, is all to launch her 72 hour hunger strike demanding 42 percent reservation for Backward Classes (BC).
The protest will be held at Indira Park at 11:00 AM, and the fast will continue till August 7. The MLC will raise demands for reservations for backward classes in local body elections, the education sector and jobs.
On July 29, Kavitha said, “As the president of Telangana Jagruthi, as a daughter and sister of Telangana, I declare to go on a 72-hour fast. I have sought permission from the state government. If they give the permission, well and good. If not, I will sit wherever.”
She further asked, “When Tamil Nadu Governor, RN Ravi, was sitting on pending Bills, the state government took the matter to the courts. Why can’t the Telangana government do the same?” She lashed out at the Revanth Reddy government, demanding it take the matter to the Supreme Court.
