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Former Chief Minister and JD (S) state president H.D. Kumaraswamy challenged Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday that if he had the capacity he should accept the caste report prepared by H. Kantharaj, the former chairman of the State ...
Motto of Rahul Gandhi’s 6,713 km-long ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’
Shivakumar said he stood by the partys stand on caste census, but he would also want the government to consider the demand of communities for a scientific approach to the survey. “Many communities are fighting for a reservation proportional to their population. These demands cut across the party lines. However, some communities have said they have not been contacted before the census and are asking for a scientific caste census.”
The meeting was held a day after Maratha activist Manoj Jarange Patil withdrew his hunger strike seeking reservation to the Maratha community under Kunbi (OBC) category, giving the state till January 2 to complete the procedural requirements and meet his demands.
Urban local body polls in Karnataka had been stuck for want of a water-tight policy on political reservation in urban local bodies and in panchayat institutions based on a set of scientific data on dominance of caste groupings in each seat.