BJP MP Opposes State's Caste Census, Backs Centre's Plan

As most of the legislators have not replied on the caste census, though the Karnataka Cabinet decided to elicit written opinion of all the legislators, the government should not implement the caste census, said former minister and BJP MP Kota Shrinivas Poojary here on Sunday.

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Participating as the key speaker in the divisional level seminar on the proposed caste census of the backward classes and communities to be taken up by the Union Government here on Sunday, Kota Shrinivas Poojary said that when he was the minister for the Backward Class Welfare Department in the Basavaraj Bommai Government, Kantharaju Commission Report was ready but the ex-officio secretary did not put hi