Union Minister G Kishan Reddy on Sunday said that the BJP has decided that reservations of 4 per cent based on religion will be removed and asserted that reservations based on SC, ST, and OBC will be increased in Telangana.

“The party has decided that reservations of 4 per cent based on religion will be removed and reservations based on SC, ST, and OBC will increase… Under the EBC reservation, minorities such as Muslims, Christians and other social groups will also be included after the BJP comes into power,” he added.

Union Minister further asserted that with the blessings of the Telangana people, we will make Chief Minister from the backward caste in the state if the BJP is voted to power.

“The BJP has decided that after coming into power in Telangana with the blessings of the people, we will make Chief Minister from the backward class,” Kishan Reddy said.

Earlier on Friday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced that the next Chief Minister of the BJP  in the state will be from a backward caste if the party is voted to power.

“Today I want to tell the people of Telangana, give your blessings to BJP and form the BJP government. BJP will give Telangana a Chief Minister from the backward class,” Amit Shah said addressing Jana Garjana Sabha in Suryapet.

With Assembly elections in Telangana on sight, the BJP seems to be working strategically to unseat the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi led by Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao in the state.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) on October 9 announced that the Telangana Assembly polls are scheduled to be held on November 30. The counting of votes will be done on December 3.

Telangana is set to witness a triangular contest between the BJP, the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi, and the Congress in the upcoming assembly election.

In the previous Assembly election held in 2018, BRS managed to win 88 seats out of 119 and had a dominant vote share of 47.4 per cent. Congress came in a distant second with 19 seats. Its vote share was 28.7 per cent.

At least one person was killed and eight others were left injured in a shooting incident at a party in Indianapolis, Indiana during the early hours of Sunday, CNN reported citing officials.

This is the second shooting incident in the US within a span of a week after the deadly Maine rampage which killed 16 people.

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Officer Samone Burris said that the officers had reached the scene after getting reports of a large party after midnight when they heard shots being fired and saw a large crowd fleeing the area.

She informed that one female, believed to be an adult, was declared dead at the scene, and several others were taken to area hospitals.

The dead has still not been identified, CNN reported.

The victims are in the range of 16 to 22 years old, Burris said, warning that the details are preliminary.

However, it still remains unclear what led up to the gunfire, or how many people opened fire.

“Several people have been detained and investigators are still working to determine their exact involvement in this incident,” Burris said, adding that multiple firearms have been located, CNN reported.

Further details are awaited in the case.

Earlier on October 26, a shooting rampage in Maine left at least 18 dead and 13 wounded.

Robert Card, the suspect in the incident, was found dead 48 hours later on Friday night.

Multiple sources informed CNN that Card died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, CNN reported.

The Lewiston, Maine, rampage stands as the deadliest mass shooting in the US this year and the deadliest since the Uvalde school massacre.

According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been at least 566 mass shootings in the country this year, CNN reported.

BJP MP Nishikant Dubey has claimed that Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra’s admission of sharing her mail ID and password with a Dubai-based industrialist is a violation of IT rules. Dubey cited the IT Act and stated that sharing such information is punishable with a jail term of up to 3 years. Moitra, a member of Parliament’s IT standing committee, is facing a cash-for-query case, and Dubey has shared a copy of a bill allegedly paid by the industrialist for Moitra’s stay in a luxury hotel.