BC reservations, both Congress and BJP caught on a slippery groundTelangana’s 42% BC reservation row has left both Congress and BJP politically vulnerable. Congress faces delays due to presidential assent and Supreme Court scrutiny, while BJP’s criticism failed to resonate, highlighting uncertainty ahead of local body elections. Ahead of the local body elections, both the parties had drawn up grand plans to win the confidence of BCs. On the other hand, the State BJP has been facing challenging times and is defenseless over the BC reservations issue. The party has been trying to blame the Congress government, charging that in the guise of extending 42 percent to BC reservations, it was actually facilitating more reservations to the backward Muslims.