Congress Govt goes all out on social engineering in Telangana. Will it reap rewards for the grand outdated celebration?

CM Revanth Reddy-led Congress Authorities has gone all out on social engineering and handed two vital Payments within the ongoing Meeting session in Telangana.

The vital Invoice rising reservations in schooling, employment and native our bodies polls to 42 % for Backward Castes (BCs) was handed, turning it right into a historic determination by Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy Authorities.

Instantly on the subsequent day, Congress Authorities handed one other Invoice approving categorisation of Scheduled Castes (SCs), fulfiling a protracted pending demand of Madigas.

If we think about the lengthy historical past of rifts between varied Castes and Caste associated unrest and clashes, Revanth Reddy-led Congress Authorities has absolutely completed the unbelievable feat.

By passing two payments referring to vital Caste teams of BCs and SCs, Congress has taken stable steps to win the assist of those teams, who collectively kind greater than half of the inhabitants. By numbers clever, it’s a very intelligent and visionary transfer, as in a electoral democracy, solely numbers matter.

However the large query is, “Will Congress Authorities social engineering technique and its efforts to succeed in out to BCs and a bit of SCs profit or hurt the grand outdated celebration?”

Congress has been historically a celebration of Different Castes (OCs), Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Minorities in Telangana. These three communities have been robust supporters of Congress and fashioned a formidable vote financial institution for the celebration. Alternatively, Backward Castes (BCs) sailed with Telugu Desam Celebration (TDP) when state was undivided and later most of them shifted to KCR’s Bharatiya Rashtra Samithi (BRS).

Because the Caste and non secular dynamics modified publish formation of Telangana, Minorities, as soon as the robust assist base of Congress, received divided. Part of Minorities vote base received diverted to AIMIM and a sizeable voterbase put their belief in KCR. This gave a extreme blow to Congress.

It was SCs and OCs, particularly Reddy group, which stood by Congress in tough instances. Coming to BCs, whereas majority supported BRS, some shifted their loyalty to BJP.

Nonetheless as Telangana individuals voted for change in 2023 Meeting elections, Congress got here again to energy trouncing highly effective BRS, which has a robust cadre and achievements to focus on. Anti-incumbency in opposition to BRS gave Congress a brand new lease of life within the southern state.

Now, after coming to energy, if Congress has to outdo BRS, then it has to deal with improvement and administration and current outcomes earlier than Telangana individuals. That’s the one approach Congress can consolidate its place amongst Telangana individuals and cease BRS and BJP’s advances.

However as a substitute of specializing in governance, Congress Authorities is placing all its energies on social engineering.

What’s attention-grabbing is, as a substitute of reaching out to its conventional supporters in SCs, OCs and Minorities, Revanth Reddy Sarkar is placing all its energies on wooing BCs, who’ve principally stayed away from grand outdated celebration.

Even in SCs, one other conventional assist base of Congress, Malas are disenchanted over Revanth Reddy Govt because it handed SC categorisation Invoice.

Incase of Minorities, CM Revanth Reddy has nonetheless not taken up any measures to woo again Minorities to Congress fold to safeguard celebration’s future within the state.

Thus, the Congress Authorities’s social engineering technique devised by CM Revanth Reddy is unquestionably a novel however difficult one. Lot will depend upon the subsequent elections consequence to evaluate the effectiveness of social engineering mannequin adopted in Telangana. Inform then Congress leaders, cadres, researchers, coverage makers and analysts must maintain their fingers crossed.