The Karnataka excessive courtroom on Thursday ordered an interim keep on the state authorities’s choice to create a separate (Different Backward Class) OBC class for Vokkaligas and Lingayats and supply reservations in schooling and authorities jobs.
A division bench headed by chief justice PB Varale stayed the brand new classes and requested the federal government to take care of the established order within the matter of OBC reservations.
The courtroom’s choice got here in the course of the listening to of a PIL (public curiosity litigation) by Raghavendra DG difficult the creation of the brand new classes. It has adjourned the matter until January 30.
Arguing for the petitioner, advocate Ravivarma Kumar sought a keep order on the federal government’s choice which was granted by the courtroom.
“The petitioner is deeply agitated by the continued agitation and calls for which has resulted in sure explicit caste being hand-picked by the primary respondent (state authorities) for a beneficial therapy discriminating towards the petitioner’s caste,” learn the petition.
The petitioner belongs to the OBC, which is at present beneath 2A.
The 2 dominant communities — Vokkaliga and Panchamasalis — that are in 3A and 3B classes have been demanding reservations beneath 2A standing, and the federal government determined to abolish 3A and 3B classes.
The federal government determined to create two new classes of 2C and 2D. These in 3A and 3B would now discover a place in 2C and 2D.
The petitioner argued that if different dominant communities are added to 2A, it could have an effect on his neighborhood’s curiosity. “The quantity of strain mounted on the primary respondent has critically affected the morale of the folks coming beneath Class 2-A basically and the petitioner’s caste specifically. If such highly effective caste and superior communities get entry into class 2-A, the prospects of the petitioner’s caste getting any alternatives in schooling, significantly skilled schooling and getting authorities jobs beneath the reserved quota, can be critically jeopardised,” the petition added.
It was additional contended within the petition that when it comes to the Karnataka State Fee for Backward Lessons Act, 1995, the idea of “interim report” didn’t discover point out within the statutory scheme, and therefore, the advert hoc process now sought to be adopted to inform sub-sect of Veerashaiva-Lingayat neighborhood in Class 2A was impermissible in legislation.
The petitioner additionally identified that in 2000, KSCBC had rejected the claims by sub-groups of Lingayats for his or her inclusion in Class 2A.
Within the lately concluded winter session of the state meeting in Belagavi, the federal government introduced the creation of two new classes: 2C and 2D, to incorporate the Lingayats and Vokkaligas within the reservations. For the reason that announcement, the Panchamasali caste of the Lingayats has been demanding inclusion within the 2A class.
The Panchamasalis are the most important group inside the highly effective Lingayat umbrella in Karnataka and have been asking for an elevated proportion of OBC reservations. The Lingayat — a neighborhood that boasts present BJP chief minister Basavaraj Bommai and his predecessor BS Yediyurappa amongst its tallest leaders — kind a minimum of 18% of the state’s inhabitants, and Panchamasalis are over half that quantity. Panchamasalis, a peasant neighborhood, have usually argued that regardless of their numerical superiority, different subsects of the Lingayats have obtained extra state consideration and have turned highly effective, sparking anger inside the neighborhood.
Panchamasalis are categorised within the newly created 2D subdivision beneath the backward class (BC) class, whereas they’ve been demanding inclusion within the 2A subdivision, which is categorised as “extra backwards” and affords 15% reservation in schooling and employment.
The state has 4 classes of OBC: 2A, 2B, 3A and 3B based mostly on the financial, social and academic standing.
These communities get preferential reservations in jobs and academic establishments based mostly on the classes. Whereas 2A are essentially the most backward, 2B are average, and slightly above them are 3A and 3B.
In the meantime, the Panchamasali neighborhood on Thursday stated it’s planning to stage a protest in entrance of CM Basavaraj Bommai’s residence in Shiggaon of Haveri district.
The federal government had stated that the 2 communities would proceed to get pleasure from the identical advantages, as they have been having fun with in 3A and 3B within the newly-created classes.
The federal government had deliberate to switch the remaining quota of the Economically Weaker Part (EWS) to the 2C and 2D classes. The Brahmin neighborhood opposed the dilution of EWS. Nonetheless, the Panchamasali neighborhood is against it.
“We have now already rejected the federal government’s choice to present us a reservation beneath part 2D. We welcome the excessive courtroom’s keep. Our protest will proceed until the federal government provides us a reservation beneath 2A. We’ll maintain a protest exterior Chief Minister’s residence in Shiggaon. After that protest following the session with the neighborhood members, additional motion can be taken,” stated Jaya Mrutyhyunjaya Swami of the Panchamasali Peeta, who’s against the present reservation introduced by the federal government.
In the meantime, two teams inside the Pachamasali neighborhood are divided over the Karnataka authorities’s choice on reservation for the Lingayat sub-sect. The disagreement has been fuelled by the feud between massive and medium-scale industries minister Murgesh Nirani and Vijayapura metropolis MLA and Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) chief Basangouda Patil Yatnal, neighborhood leaders within the know of the developments stated.
Two teams inside the Pachamasali neighborhood aligned with Nirani and Yatnal are on the centre of the controversy.
Whereas one accepted the federal government’s proposal, the opposite is towards it. For the reason that subject took centre stage, Yatnal and Nirani are accusing one another of working towards the neighborhood’s curiosity, with each accusing one another of making an attempt to steal credit score for the reservation.