After the Karnataka cabinet accepted a report on socio-economic and educational survey (census), the Government of the Congress Government and the party seems to be divided into caste lines.
Given the role of playing caste in electoral policy, ministers and congress of the MLA, belonging to the communities of the Veerashaiva-Landayat and Vokkaliga communities, they began to issue a statement questioning the “scientific” basis of a bulky report. Many of them even questioned the data on the population of the report and demanded new surveys.
Although Minister Siddaramaiah, the Curub itself and the leader of the Civil Code, defended the message, several of his colleagues from the cabinet are assumed that he has distanced himself from the report. The leaders of both dominant communities decided to gather opinions on the MLA before the planned special meeting of the cabinet, which will be held on Thursday to discuss the details of the report.
CASTE-WISE Meeting
While the head of KPCC DK Shivakumar, also the Deputy Chief Minister, was organized on Tuesday by a meeting of the MLA belonging to the Vokkalig community, Shamanur ShivashankaAppa on Wednesday or Thursday morning. Mr. ShivashankaAppa was already against the news. The community has 56 legislators belonging to the ruling congress and opposition.
Congress went to power in 2023 with the support of communities Veerashaiva-Landayat and Vokkalig. Of the 137 congress MLA, 60 legislators have dominant castes. While Veerashaiva-Landayat has 37 MLA, including Lingayat Raddi, Vokkalig’s community has 23 mills.
The CITC categories are represented by 21 mills, including eight belonging to the Kuna community. Although there are 23 MLAs from the planned caste, the planned tribes are represented by 14 mills. The Muslim community has 10 mills.
Minister of Transport Ramaling Redda said on Tuesday: “We have already organized a meeting and on Saturday we called for another meeting of communities leaders to verify the data.” The report mentioned that the community has 7.5 lakh populations.
Mr. Reddy said that the community district data would be verified. If any outages were found in the report, he said that the government would be invited to correct it.
Basavaraju V. Shivagang, Channagiri Mla, said the caste census took place ten years ago “is quite confusing”. The survey mentioned that the Sadaras, the entity in the Veerashaiva-Landayat community, belongs to 67,000. He claimed that there was about 60,000 Sadara Lingayats in the Channagiri election district, he said.
Published – April 15 2025 20:09
