The State BC Welfare Association president J. Srinivas Goud has appealed to the BC communities to be united to achieve their rights and due share in the annual Budget to be presented in the Assembly.
Taking part in the roundtable conference on the topic titled ‘State Budget, Share of BCs’ held under the banner of the association district unit, here on Tuesday, he said that the BCs constituted more than 50 per cent of the total population of the society, but their share in the budgetary allocations was not even three per cent.
Even though agriculture, farmers and coolies and rural artisans who are basically BCs, contributed significantly to the economy, they were neglected by successive governments by giving top priority only to corporates and large business houses over a period of time, he said.
Appealing to the BCs to attend on a large scale in the Challo Assembly to be organised by the association to exert pressure on the government to allocate a major amount for the development of BCs, he warned that if the interests of major section of the society were ignored the governments would not survive.
The association district president Narala Sudhakar presided.
The TRS politburo member A.S. Posetty, the BJP senior leader Aljapur Srinivas, Bussa Anjaneyulu, CPM district secretary Dandi Venkat, CITU district president A. Ramesh Babu, BC Students Association president Srinivas Goud, Women’s College principal Vasundara, Red Cross Society treasurer Tota Rajashekar were among those who spoke at the conference.
