Greater than a yr after it was submitted to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah by the Karnataka State Fee for Backward Courses, the report of the Socioeconomic and Training Survey—popularly known as a caste census—might be taken up by the cupboard on Friday.
Based on sources within the chief ministers’ workplace and the legislation division, the cupboard will focus on the survey report. “The report, because it was submitted, has remained in a sealed cowl. Although the federal government had wished to take it up earlier this yr, it was delayed as a result of numerous causes,” a supply stated, referring to Siddaramaiah’s remarks that the report can be taken up by the cupboard in January.
The proposal to debate the survey report—which is opposed by dominant communities equivalent to Lingayats and Vokkaligas—comes towards the backdrop of the Congress’ renewed give attention to wooing the Different Backward Courses to nook the BJP. On the Congress Working Committee assembly held in Ahmedabad, Rahul Gandhi is learnt to have suggested the get together’s items to shift their focus to the OBCs as they’re estimated to represent greater than 50 per cent of the nationwide inhabitants.
The statewide survey, commissioned in 2015 by the earlier Congress authorities led by Siddaramaiah, was accomplished in 2017 earlier than being stored in chilly storage forward of the 2018 Meeting polls because the get together feared political repercussions. The succeeding governments—led by H D Kumaraswamy of the JD(S)-Congress coalition and B S Yediyurappa and later Basavaraj Bommai, each of the BJP—additionally selected to sit down over the report for the following 5 years.
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