Members of Panchamasali Lingayat group on Friday held a protest in entrance of the Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai’s residence over “lack of readability” in offering reservation to them. They’ve been demanding reservation below 2A part of the opposite background courses (OBC) class. Kudalasangama Peetha’s Jagadguru Basava Jaya Mruthynjaya Swamiji, the seer who has been main the protests, reminded CM Bommai’s promise by “swearing on his mom” to offer applicable reservation to the group.
“CM had promised and swore on his mom that he’ll give 2A reservation on Dec 29. We requested for 2A reservation however they gave 2D. CM made a mistake by swearing on his mom. So we’re doing satyagraha in entrance of CM’s home for at some point,” he was quoted as saying by information company ANI.
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The demonstration got here amid Karnataka excessive court docket’s keep order on offering separate OBC class to Lingayats together with Vokkaligas, one other dominant group within the state, in schooling and authorities jobs. The state has 4 classes of OBC: 2A, 2B, 3A and 3B primarily based on the financial, social and academic standing.
Nevertheless, the state authorities determined to create new classes – 2C and 2D – and abolish 3A and 3B classes, positioning each dominant communities in newly fashioned divisions.
Earlier, the Panchamasali Lingayat group carried out a foot march as a present of energy to be able to pressurise the CM.
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The Panchamasali is a sub-sect of the politically dominant Veerashaiva-Lingayat group and a robust voter base within the state for the Bharatiya Janata Occasion. The group is demanding inclusion within the 2A part of the opposite background courses (OBC) class which is able to avail them a 15 % reservation in academic {and professional} sectors. The group is already categorised below 3B part of OBC which permits 5 % reservation.
The quota agitation by Panchamasali Lingayats was triggered by BJP MLA Murugesh Nirani and later by BJP chief Basanagouda Patil Yatnal. The group has cited poverty as one of many causes for his or her calls for for OBC reservations.