A day after the Telangana legislature passed a bill increasing the quota for backward Muslims, the BJP launched protests by laying siege to offices of district collectors across the state.

Dubbing the Bill hiking reservation for Muslims in Telangana as a "trash paper", BJP today said it has no legal and constitutional sanctity and would be "quashed" at the central government level.

BJP today staged protests in Hyderabad and elsewhere in Telangana against the passage of a bill by the state legislature increasing reservations for...

The reservations for STs in education and jobs has been increased from 6 per cent to 10 per cent.