It's mean to do politics in the name of religion & no one should do this

DEPUTY Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Sunday said legislators representing various communities have a scope to debate the Socio-Economic and Educational Survey (SEC) report, also known as the caste census, which was accepted by the Siddaramaiah cabinet on Friday.

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"The chief minister said people's representatives will be allowed to discuss the caste census report in the Assembly. What can be done more transparently than this?" he said in response to the communities expressing concern about the census. "Veerashaiva Mahasabha are going to protect their interests; why should we criticise them? Let them express their views according to the Constitution," he told reporters. He was replying to mahasabha national president Shamanuru Shivashankarappa's criticis