Bengaluru: The BJP authorities in Karnataka Friday determined to take away spiritual minorities from the backward courses checklist, beneath which they bought 4 per cent reservation, and redistributed the quota amongst Lingayats and Vokkaligas, and different teams.
The minorities, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai stated, will as an alternative get reservation beneath the ten per cent quota for economically weaker sections (EWS). The choice solely impacts Muslims since they have been the only spiritual minority within the given class of the backward courses checklist, 2B.
The Lingayats and Vokkaligas have been demanding elevated reservation advantages. The transfer comes simply forward of the state meeting elections, the place the BJP is searching for to attract the Vokkaligas to its fold and assuage the anger in sure sections of the highly effective Lingayat group over the removing of B.S. Yediyurappa as chief minister in 2021, and the continuing agitation by the Panchamasalis.
CM Bommai introduced the choice in a media briefing after his authorities’s final cupboard assembly earlier than the election, saying it would solely improve alternatives for spiritual minorities.
“Constitutionally, they’ve stated it very merely. These castes which aren’t beneath SC/ST, OBC reservation, aside from that, everybody else will be beneath economically weaker part,” he stated in Bengaluru.
“From a 4 per cent pool, they (spiritual minorities) can now avail of 10 %. However the circumstances are the identical. There are financial standards right here (backward courses checklist) and there are financial standards there (EWS).”
The choice was criticised by former CM Siddaramaiah of the Congress, who can be the chief of the opposition within the meeting, alleging “malice to create animosity between communities”.
“The 4 per cent reservation given to Muslims within the backward courses group (2B) has been allotted to Vokkaligas and Lingayats. By stealing from one and giving to a different, there may be malice to create animosity between communities by @BJP4Karnataka,” he tweeted.
New categorisation
Beneath the brand new determination, the 2B classification has been achieved away with, and its 4 per cent quota equally distributed to classes 2C & 2D, classes carved out earlier this yr.
The Bommai authorities had in mid-January determined to eliminate classes 3A (Vokkaligas & others) in addition to 3B (Lingayats & others) beneath the checklist — which have a reservation of 4 per cent and 5 per cent, respectively — and reclassified them as 2C and 2D, with the identical constituent communities and quota.
Now, the newly carved classes will every get 2 per cent extra reservation.
The Panchamasalis, a subsect of the Lingayats, have stated they should examine the choice and can provide a response Saturday morning.
The state authorities has additionally determined to implement inner reservation for varied caste teams — or reservation for teams that represent bigger teams just like the Scheduled Castes (SCs) — as a part of its “overview”.
Bommai stated the federal government had shaped a committee that had submitted its report. However since there have been many complicated points, one other cupboard sub-committee was shaped beneath state legislation minister J.C. Madhuswamy, he added.
“This cupboard sub-committee, after a lot deliberation, has come to a conclusion that beneath the prevailing SC reservation, everybody ought to get justice…in proportion to their inhabitants and their standing,” Bommai stated.
Based on Article 341(2) of the Structure, the SC group has been divided into 4 teams, Bommai stated, including that primarily based on the sub-committee’s suggestions, inner reservation can be given to the 4 teams.
Beneath this, SC (Left) will get 6 per cent, SC (Proper) will get 5.5 per cent, ‘touchables’ will get 4.5 per cent, and others will get 1 per cent, Bommai added.
Bommai additionally stated that it’ll ship these suggestions to the central authorities for approval, as it would the sub-committee’s suggestions for together with communities like Kadu Kuruba and Jenu Kuruba beneath the Scheduled Tribes (STs) class.
(Edited by Sunanda Ranjan)
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