BJP govt to hike reservations for Lingayats, reservation for minorities scraped...
<p>Ahead of state’s election, Karnataka government on Friday announced that the reservation given to minorities including Muslims would now be added to the present quota for the dominant communities across the state.That means the 4% reservation given to the Muslims under OBC Section would now be divided amongst the 2 major communities across the state which are Lingayats and Vokkalingas. 2 new reservations under the C and 2D were created during the Belagavi Assembly Session last year.Now the state’s cabinet has decided to being the religious minority community under the EWS category. While explaining about the same CM said, “The four per cent (reservation for minorities) will be divided into two between 2C and 2D. The four per cent reservation for the Vokkaligas and others will be enhanced to six per cent and Veerashaiva Panchamasali and others (Lingayats), who are getting five per cent reservation will now get seven per cent.” Also read: ‘Why Would I Be Ashamed?’ : Malayal</p>
01:29 PM Mar 25, 2023 IST
Ahead of state’s election, Karnataka government on Friday announced that the reservation given to minorities including Muslims would now be added to the present quota for the dominant communities across the state.
That means the 4% reservation given to the Muslims under OBC Section would now be divided amongst the 2 major communities across the state which are Lingayats and Vokkalingas. 2 new reservations under the C and 2D were created during the Belagavi Assembly Session last year.
Now the state’s cabinet has decided to being the religious minority community under the EWS category. While explaining about the same CM said, “The four per cent (reservation for minorities) will be divided into two between 2C and 2D. The four per cent reservation for the Vokkaligas and others will be enhanced to six per cent and Veerashaiva Panchamasali and others (Lingayats), who are getting five per cent reservation will now get seven per cent.”
Further while defending their decision for abolishing the reservation for minorities, he said that even the father of Indian constitution BR Ambedkar said that reservations were for caste and not foe religion.
He further added, “However, we cannot drop that community entirely. With a view that there should not be any problem, the religious minorities…If someone challenges reservation to them, we decided to take a proactive decision. In fact they will go from 4 per cent to the 10 percent pool of the EWS group without any change of condition.”
Bommai also said that the government will notify the communities under the EWS category. Also, a decision was taken with regard to the SC community that 6 percent reservation would be given to SC left sub-category, 5.5 percent to SC right, 4.5 percent to touchables and 1 percent to others.
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