Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday called the Cabinet Secretary and other important officials and instructed them to expedite the committee formation and process of sub-categorisation in the reservation to Madiga community, PTI quoted government sources.
The development has come days after PM Modi at a rally organised by the Madiga Reservation Porata Samithi (MRPS) in poll-bound Telangana announced that the Centre would soon form a committee that would adopt all possible ways for empowering Madigas with regard to their demand for sub-categorisation of Scheduled Castes.
Madigas are a big constituent of the Scheduled Castes in the Telugu states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
The MRPS has been fighting for the categorisation of SCs since the last three decades on the grounds that the fruits of reservations and others have not reached them. The BJP has stood with them in every struggle since the last three decades, Modi had said.
"We are committed to ending this injustice at the earliest... It is our promise that we will soon constitute a committee that will adopt all possible ways for empowering you.
You and we also know that a big legal process is going on in the Supreme Court. We consider your struggle to be just," he had said.
Telangana is going to the assembly polls on November 30.
The ruling BRS, the Congress and the BJP are locked in a keen fight, with the saffron party making a determined push to emerge as a strong force in the southern state.
With inputs from PTI
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