Caste Census Report Divides Karnataka Congress, Powerful Communities Oppose
NDTV
DK Shivakumar is a signatory to a memorandum submitted to Siddaramaiah, requesting to reject the caste census report along with the data.
Karnataka's Socio-Economic and Education Survey, popularly known as the "caste census", is mired in controversies even before the report is submitted to the government, amid deep divisions within the ruling Congress, stiff opposition by powerful communities against its acceptance and the survey's original "work-sheet" copy missing.
There are also indications about a delay in the submission of the survey report by Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes, with the government extending the tenure of its current Chairman, K Jayaprakash Hegde by a couple of months, until the submission of the report, originally due this month.
What has put the state government and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who on Tuesday had asserted that his decision to accept the report is unwavering, in a tight spot is Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar being a signatory to a memorandum submitted to him, requesting to reject it along with the data.
