The Telangana assembly has five BJP members and all of them were suspended from the house for two days for disrupting proceedings. The MLAs, including the leader K.Laxman, trooped into the well, protesting the TRS government's move to increase the reservation for Muslims in the state.
The TRS government had announced that it will move a bill in the assembly during the ongoing Budget session to raise the quota for the Muslims in jobs and education from the current 4 per cent to 12 per cent. This quota was an election promise made by the TRS. The Telangana BJP has been protesting for long and thought the move to be unconstitutional and so called for 'chalo assembly'. But the police had the upper hand and detained the activists of the BJP and its student wing, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM).
The chief minister of Telangana, K.Chandrasekhar Rao, said that his government would follow the same policy as that of Tamil Nadu, when it introduced the Act 45/94 and enhanced the issue of reservation in the ninth schedule of the Indian constitution with the consent of the Parliament. In fact he thought that there should be a relaxation which says that reservations should not exceed 50 per cent.
The Telangana BJP meanwhile feels that 12 per cent reservation to poor Muslims in the State would adversely affect the interests of the backward castes, especially since they constituted 54 per cent of the population. In fact, the Muralidhar Rao commission report had suggested to the then united Andhra Pradesh that they should provide 44 per cent reservations to BCs. And in the 2014 polls, KCR had promised that he would increase the reservations' quota to 50 per cent. But, so far, nothing has been done in that direction.