Kapus form 27% of votes, may enter BC list
Hyderabad: The Congress high command is considering rushing another major decision, that of including Kapus in the Backward Classes, with an eye on the community’s electoral su-pport in the coastal districts. The Kapu vote is estimated at 27 per cent in Seemandhra.
Unmindful of the legal validity of the late move, senior Congress leaders, in particular those belonging to the Kapu community, proposed to the high command that a Chief Minister should be installed without loss of time and an ordinance should be issued by him before the Election Commission announces the poll dates.
Sources told this newspaper that the names of PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana, Union minister K. Chiranjeevi and state minister Kanna Lakshminarayana, all from the Kapu community, are doing the rounds.
The Congress high command is redrawing its poll strategy for Seemandhra. Till now, Reddys, BCs and SC formed backed the Congress in 2004 and 2009, while the Kapus, dominant in some pockets of coastal districts, backed the Congress only in 2004 and shifted en masse to Mr Chiranjeevi’s Praja Rajyam in 2009. The Kapus parted ways with the TD in 1989 after the murder of Vangaveeti Mohana Ranga and went back to its fold in 1994.
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