Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D Okay Shivakumar has held discussions with Congress legislators from his Vokkaliga neighborhood concerning the “caste census” and stated the opinion expressed on the assembly will likely be shared with the Cupboard on April 17.
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar. (PTI)
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Whereas he didn’t share particulars, the senior Congress chief stated they mentioned on what must be instructed to the cupboard in a single voice. “I have tried to inform our legislators about the contents of the report to an extent. The legislators have shared their opinion. We have discussed on what has to be told to the cabinet in one voice and we will place it accordingly,” Shivakumar said.
Other than Vokkaliga Congress legislators, Ministers Ramalinga Reddy, Krishna Byre Gowda, Sudhakar, Cheluvarayaswamy, and former State Backward Classes Commission Chairperson Jayaprakash Hegde, among others attended the meeting held on Tuesday night. The Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes’ report was placed before the cabinet last Friday, and it will be discussed at a special cabinet meeting scheduled on April 17. The findings of the survey are reportedly contrary to the “conventional notion” with regard to the numerical strength of various castes, especially the dominant Veerashaiva-Lingayats and Vokkaligas, making it a politically sticky issue.
Ministers from these two communities are said to be preparing to place their objections during the next cabinet meeting, sources said. The Vokkaligara Sangha, the apex body of the influential Vokkaliga community, earlier on Tuesday officially registered its strong protest to the survey report, calling it “unscientific”. They’ve urged the state authorities to reject it and conduct a contemporary survey whereas warning of sturdy agitation if the federal government proceeds with it. The survey report, the main points of which aren’t formally out but, reportedly estimates the inhabitants of the Lingayat neighborhood at 66.35 lakh and the Vokkaliga neighborhood inhabitants is claimed to be at 61.58 lakh. Requested whether or not the Vokkaliga legislators and ministers are fantastic with the neighborhood’s inhabitants figures talked about within the report, Shivakumar stated, “We are not worried or thinking about one community, as Congress president and ministers, protecting all communities is our duty and we will work accordingly. “We aren’t prepared to search out errors within the system that has been adopted whereas making ready the report, they’ve finished an in depth train. Opposition events are attempting to create confusion by media, we’ll reply to it,” he added.
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Noting that it was the earlier Congress celebration authorities that had commissioned the survey in 2015 and crores of rupees had been spent on it, he stated, a piece of media is reporting away from the information concerning the contents of the survey report stating that the Muslim inhabitants was extra. Earlier, Shivakumar, who can be the state Congress president, was a signatory, together with a few different Vokkaliga ministers, to a memorandum submitted by the neighborhood to the chief minister, requesting that the report and the information be rejected.