DKS vs Sidda: Caste census splits Karnataka Congress wide open
Business Standard|November 24, 2023
Recent developments in Karnataka, where Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar has aligned with Vokkaliga leaders to urge the Siddaramaiah-led government to discard a 2015 caste census report, have ignited a new of power struggle between the two leaders.
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DKS vs Sidda: Caste census splits Karnataka Congress wide open

The controversy has prompted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to highlight the contradictions within the Congress regarding the issue of caste census and the Opposition INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance) bloc.

Shivakumar, the Congress' foremost Vokkaliga leader and its state unit chief, has signed a petition demanding that the state government scrap the socioeconomic and educational survey conducted by the earlier Siddaramaiah government in 2015. The petition calls for a fresh 'scientific' caste census.

In the Congress manifesto for the Karnataka Assembly polls in May 2023, the party pledged to increase reservations to 75 per cent. It committed to raising the quotas for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes, and restoring the 4 per cent reservation for Muslims. The manifesto, and later Siddaramiah, promised to implement the 2015 caste census report.

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