In a social media put up titled “Caste Census… Hate Census..?”, Union minister H D Kumaraswamy on Tuesday questioned the findings of the Karnataka authorities’s Socioeconomic and Training Survey and accused Deputy Chief Minister D Ok Shivakumar of betraying the Vokkaliga neighborhood, to which each leaders belong.
Kumaraswamy sought inhabitants particulars of the neighborhood residing in seven districts of the previous Mysore area. “Not solely the information of the Vokkaliga neighborhood, the (inhabitants) numbers of Veerashaiva Lingayats and another communities have additionally shocked me,” he wrote on X.
The Vokkaligas are dominant within the south inside Karnataka area.
The JD(S) chief requested whether or not the “Census assure was a conspiracy to trigger chaos within the state” or a tactic to deflect consideration from a sequence of value hikes and corruption instances. “When your entire state is engulfed within the fireplace of caste, is that this transfer of Congress authorities a continued chapter in in search of political, (and) social vengeance in opposition to sure communities?” he wrote.
Kumaraswamy attacked Shivakumar, who can also be the state Congress chief, for altering his stance after opposing the survey in a “weak voice” in entrance of the neighborhood previously. “For the sin of giving pen and paper (to Shivakumar), the Vokkaliga neighborhood is paying the value. For the greed of energy, the identical individual is writing a dying sentence for the neighborhood,” he wrote.
BJP state president B Y Vijayendra accused Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of accepting the report to remain in energy as he may need to vacate his chair quickly.
“Prior to now, the identical Siddaramaiah ignited a fireplace by demanding separate faith standing for Veerashaiva Lingayats,” Vijayendra advised reporters at Belagavi, referring to the motion beneath Industries Minister M B Patil—a Lingayat like Vijayendra—that urged the BJP-led central authorities, forward of the 2018 polls, to grant the standing for the neighborhood largely residing in central and north Karnataka districts.
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“As we speak, Siddaramaiah has began the method of dividing Hindus and Muslims,” he stated.
Vijayendra additional accused the Congress of utilizing Muslims for vote financial institution politics, stating that the occasion was misusing the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities equally. Save to pursue such politics, “neither the Congress occasion nor Siddaramaiah has any honesty” in implementing the survey’s suggestions, he stated, including that the BJP would expose the federal government within the coming days.
The JD(S) is an ally of the BJP within the Nationwide Democratic Alliance.
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