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SAPS warns against region-wise quota

TIRUPATI: For the second consecutive day Chittoor District unit of the Samaikhya Andhra Parirakshana Samithi (SAPS) held demonstrations in Tirupati on Saturday holding out a threat that the State would be plunged into a turmoil if the government yielded to the T-JAC's pressure tactics and postponed the examination schedule already announced for the Group I Preliminary examination.

SAPS leaders, who led a procession through the main streets of Tirupati, said that it was highly deplorable that the government, which issued the notification for the Group I Prelims reportedly as far back as in 2007, was still dragging its feet on conducting it, making the fate of 1.98 lakh candidates who applied for the 198 posts notified, hang in the balance.

They are forced to loiter in the streets of Hyderabad and run from pillar to post in the coaching centres at Hyderabad because of the continued uncertainty over the dates for the oft-postponed examination, SAPS leaders criticised.

The leaders also warned that any move to fix a region-wise quota for the posts notified by the APPSC would be like opening the Pandora's Box because it would give rise to demand for district-wise reservations because of the critical unemployment problem. They also pointed out that fixing region-wise quota would also need Constitutional Amendment and said that the whole turmoil was due to the disgruntled politicians of the Telangana region like the TRS president, K.Chandrasekhar Rao who were continuously stoking the fire of Telangana for their own vote bank politics.

They said the T-JAC Convener, Prof. Kodandaram would do well to first acquaint himself with the rules and regulations of the APPSC and so also the implications the demand for postponement of the exam.

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