Reservation Bill is BJP’s election gimmick: Siddaramaiah
Mysuru, Jan 9: “It’s not possible to discuss the issue of appointment to boards and corporations on streets. It will be discussed in the Coordination Committee meeting and solve it”, said former chief minister Siddaramaiah.
He told reporters here on Wednesday when he was asked about Minister HD Revanna’s displeasure over appointment to boards and corporation, that he would not speak about the issue on streets. He would convene a meeting of the Coordination Committee shortly and discuss the issue in detail, he added.
Seat sharing in the forthcoming Lok Sabha election would also be discussed in the Coordination Committee meeting, Siddaramaiah said.
Election gimmick
Blasting at the BJP leaders, Siddaramaiah said that presenting a Bill on giving 10 per cent reservation to upper general castes was just an election gimmick. He would welcome the move of giving reservation to the poor in the upper castes.
It was the BJP which has been opposing the reservation. But now, they have presented the Bill on reservation which is an election gimmick, he said.
Except the BJP backed organizations, all other labour organisations have participated in the Bharat Bandh called by the labour organizations. Their protest was justifiable. It was not Congress-sponsored. The central government should solve the problems of the labour sector, he said.
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Rickelton's ton in vain as SRH beat MI by 6 wickets
Mumbai (PTI): Ryan Rickelton's whirlwind unbeaten ton was overshadowed by Heinrich Klaasen's unbeaten 65 as Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Mumbai Indians by six wickets in an IPL match here on Wednesday.
Chasing an imposing 244-run target, Travis Head (76 off 30) and Abhishek Sharma (45 off 24) shared 129 runs for the opening wicket to set the platform for SRH.
Klaasen (65 not out off 30 balls) then displayed his all-round hitting abilities to guide SRH home with the help of Nitish Kumar Reddy (21) and Salil Arora (30 not out off 10) in 18.4 overs.
Earlier, Rickelton's knock powered MI to 243 for five.
MI rode on a 93-run stand between Rickelton (123 not out off 55 balls) and Will Jacks (46 off 22) in 7.1 overs for the opening stand to power the side.
MI skipper Hardik Pandya scored a valuable 31 off 15 balls before being dismissed.
Praful Hinge (2/54), Eshan Malinga (1/29), Sakib Hasan (1/39) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (1/31) were the wicket-takers for SRH.
Brief Scores:
Mumbai Indian: 243 for 5 in 20 overs (Ryan Rickelton 123 not out; Praful Hinge 2/54).
Sunrisers Hyderabad: 249 for 4 in 18.4 overs (Travis Head 76, Heinrich Klaasen 65 not out; AM Ghazanfar 2/51).
