Agitation in Gadag seeking release of caste census report

State Government urged to take steps to resume welfare schemes meant for backward classes

Seeking the release of the caste census report conducted during the previous government, members of various backward classes staged a dharna in front of the office of the Deputy Commissioner in Gadag on Wednesday.

Leading the agitation, State president of Karnataka Rajya Hindulida Jatigala Okkuta K.M. Ramachandrappa urged the State Government to immediately release the report of the caste census done by the Karnataka State Backward Classes Commission, then headed by Chairman H. Kantharaj.

Addressing the protestors, Mr. Ramachandrappa said that because of the oppression of powerful upper class communities, communities that had remained socially and educationally backward had suffered a lot. And, in the last three years, the State Government had neglected the welfare of the backward communities on the pretext of economic crisis, he said.