Divided opinions inside the ruling Congress concerning the Karnataka Socio-economic and Academic Survey are anticipated to be mentioned in a particular Cupboard assembly scheduled for Thursday. This assembly goals to handle the contents of the survey, commissioned throughout Siddaramaiah’s first tenure as chief minister in 2015 and generally known as the caste census, which was introduced to the Cupboard through the earlier assembly held on April 11
Not solely the Opposition Nationwide Democratic Alliance (NDA) allies BJP and Janata Dal (Secular), however Congress legislators from dominant communities Vokkaligas and Lingayats have additionally expressed reservations over the findings of the survey, which discovered that Lingayats and Voggaligas accounted for under 21.3 per cent of Karnataka’s inhabitants. Earlier, there have been claims that these two dominant castes added up near a 3rd of the state’s inhabitants.
Nevertheless, leaders from Different Backward Courses (OBC), Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) have welcomed the findings of the survey.
Senior Congress legislator Shamanuru Shivashankarappa, additionally president of Akhila Bharatha Veerashaiva Mahasabha, mentioned that like Vokkaligas, Lingayats, too, had been against the census. “Let’s see, in the event that they implement it (regardless of the opposition),” he mentioned Wednesday.
This nevertheless, didn’t sit nicely with Congress MLC and a everlasting invitee to the Congress Working Committee, B Ok Hariprasad, who comes from an OBC group. “No one can threaten the federal government or the Congress celebration. However, in a democracy persons are free to air their opinions. In the end, the state authorities has to resolve on it (implementing the report), and I’m assured that it’ll take the choice,” he mentioned.
Through the day, Congress MLA Basavaraju Shivaganaga lambasted the seven Lingayat ministers within the state Cupboard for not convening a gathering of group legislators concerning the survey, just like the one held by Vokkaliga group. “They need to resign,” he mentioned.
On Tuesday night, Deputy Chief Minister D Ok Shivakumar chaired a gathering with legislators from the Vokkaliga group, who’re learnt to have expressed reservations over implementing the caste census. Shivakumar refused to expose the end result of the assembly, saying that he would current his stance through the particular Cupboard assembly. Up to now, the Vokkaliga chief had opposed the caste census.
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