Telangana Cabinet meeting on November 15 to decide on local body polls, BC quota

The State Cabinet meeting, earlier planned for Wednesday, has been postponed to November 15, with the government expected to take several crucial decisions, including on the long-pending local body elections and BC reservations.The meeting, to be chaired by Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy at the State Secretariat, comes a day after the Jubilee Hills bypoll results are announced on November 14.According to official sources, the meeting which was initially scheduled for November 7 and later moved to November 12, was postponed to await the bypoll outcome. The Congress leadership, confident of victory in Jubilee Hills, is reportedly preparing to initiate key administrative measures once the results are declared.

- GNS News Agency, Nov 12

The conduct of local body elections under the old reservation system is expected to top the Cabinet agenda. Citing the High Court directions, the Revanth Reddy governmentis likely to cap the total reservations at 50 per cent to conduct the local body elections. While the BC organisations and the opposition parties are demanding for a constitutional provision to provide the promised 42 per cent reservations for BCs, the Congress is expected to propose that the reservations should be provided by political parties.Officia