Apart from political compulsions, is there any moral justification for this ? 200 crores is not a small amount and is much much more costly for government than say paying 5% of new kapu reservation of employees. But reservations create lot of anger but this waste does not. Lots of similiar waste everywhere for political votes - subsidy, pensions, this welfare that welfare. Election based democracy is the single biggest enemy of devlopment and people simply vote themsevles benefits from government.
in addition there is something seriously wrong in supporting brahmins who enjoy 100% reservations in priesthood, still a very prestigious profession. In addition telugu brahmins are most committed anti-tdp group in ap (though it is much less among younger brahmins).