Hyderabad:The BJP has announced its support for the demands of government employees, who resorted to lunch-hour demonstrations on Friday, and the proposed strike by RTC employees from April 22. The party charged the state government with resorting to unethical practices by allegedly empowering some RTC employees’ trade unions, which are not part of the joint action committee, to break the proposed strike.
In a statement, BJP state president N. Ramchander Rao accused the government of having followed a similar path earlier.
Addressing a press conference, BJP national council member Marri Shashidhar Reddy defended the Centre’s women’s reservation and delimitation proposal as the best way to address southern states’ concerns over Lok Sabha seat losses. Dismissing Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s protests as “desperate election tactics,” Reddy recalled that the Tamil Nadu Assembly had unanimously backed such measures in 1999.
He warned that post-2011 or ongoing census-based delimitation could cost the South at least 33–40 of its 129 Lok Sabha seats, boosting representation in the northern Hindi belt. The current plan, he said, freezes the 1971 seat allocation while adding 50 per cent more seats nationwide to accommodate the 33 per cent women’s quota, thereby preserving the South’s share.
Reddy urged leaders of southern states to thank Prime Minister Narendra Modi for this “statesmanship,” calling it a step toward national integrity and “women-led development,” rather than favoritism toward the BJP.
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