Siddaramaiah stated that Karnataka authorities has not made any adjustments to the backward class reservations.
Bengaluru:
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday stated that the Congress authorities led by him within the state has not made any adjustments to the backward class reservations whereas terming the declare arising within the matter a “blatant lie”.
In an announcement, Mr Siddaramaiah stated that Muslims have been a part of the backward class reservation for the reason that L.G. Havanur Fee Report in 1974.
“The present Karnataka authorities has not made any adjustments to the backward class reservations. The earlier authorities had taken away the 4 per cent BC (backward class) reservation underneath class 2B to Muslims and the matter has been pending within the Supreme Court docket with the earlier BJP authorities headed by Bsavaraj Bommai giving an endeavor that it’s going to not implement the adjustments in the course of the pendency of the case within the Supreme Court docket,” he said.
“Because the matter stands thus, the Nationwide Fee for Backward Courses (NCBC) in a politically motivated transfer, has issued a press observe on a problem that doesn’t concern it. The legislation is obvious that the state governments have the facility to find out their very own listing of castes and communities to be categorised as Backward Courses. The NCBC has no function in it,” CM Siddaramaiah stated.
He additional stated “the NCBC press observe is motivated to create confusion within the state when it’s going for election”.
“It gives the look that the Congress authorities of Karnataka has given a brand new reservation to Muslims. This can be a blatant lie. The actual fact stays that the backward class reservation of Muslims has been in existence since 1977 (04.03.1977) and it has withstood authorized scrutiny,” he stated.
Successive Backward Class Commissions, specifically, Havanur, Venkataswamy, Chinnappa Reddy, Prof Ravi Verma Kumar Commissions have recognised Muslims topic to earnings ceiling as Backward Class. This has been the place of legislation, the assertion learn.
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