“I met over 30 legislators and ministers from OBC communities today, including BJP legislator Ravi Kumar. All of them have given me a memorandum seeking that the government accept the caste census report and implement it,” he said. He clarified that the caste census was not a census of just OBCs, but that of ‘all the seven crore Kannadigas’, Siddaramaiah added.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday announced that the Socio-Economic-Educational Census, also known as the caste census report, is likely to be placed before the state Cabinet on October 18 to take a call on its implementation.
“Most likely, the caste census report will be placed before the State Cabinet’s meeting on October 18. We will abide by whatever the Cabinet decides,” the Chief Minister said, interacting with the media after meeting ministers and legislators from Other Backward Communities (OBC) on October 7.
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“I met over 30 legislators and ministers from OBC communities today, including BJP legislator Ravi Kumar. All of them have given me a memorandum seeking that the government accept the caste census report and implement it,” he said. He clarified that the caste census was not a census of just OBCs, but that of ‘all the seven crore Kannadigas’, Siddaramaiah added.
The opposition BJP and JD(S) have opposed the implementation of the caste census report on the grounds that it is obsolete since it was conducted about 10 years ago and that it has ‘not been conducted scientifically’
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