SC caste survey report to be discussed at Special Cabinet meet in Karnataka on August 16
Bengaluru: The Karnataka Cabinet will hold a special meeting on August 16 to discuss the Justice HN Nagamohan Das Commission’s report on internal reservation among Scheduled Castes.
Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister HK Patil stated that the Commission surveyed 92% of the population across 101 SC communities. “Copies of the report have been distributed to all the members of the Cabinet. Everyone will come to the special cabinet meeting after reading the report and participate in the discussion,” he said.
The report was formally submitted to the Cabinet on Thursday.
According to sources quoted by The New Indian Express, key ministers from SC communities — including Social Welfare Minister Dr HC Mahadevappa, Home Minister Dr G Parameshwara, Food and Civil Supplies Minister KH Muniyappa, Excise Minister RB Thimmapur, RDPR Minister Priyank Kharge, and Backward Classes Development Minister Shivaraj Tangadagi — have so far refrained from speaking much about the report.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has urged the ministers to thoroughly review the report before the meeting and return prepared for a constructive debate in the special Cabinet.
The Congress government faces mounting pressure from the leadership of the SC Left community, which has long demanded internal reservations. The push for implementation intensified after the Supreme Court, on August 1, 2024, ruled that states are constitutionally empowered to sub-classify SC quotas.
However, leaders from Bhovi and Lambani communities have cautioned against hasty implementation. The government is expected to take a decision, especially as recruitment processes remain stalled pending sub-classification of the SC quota.
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'Rear-guard action': BJP over Mamata accepting sports minister's resignation after Messi event
New Delhi (PTI): The BJP on Tuesday alleged that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's accepting Aroop Biswas' resignation as the state sports minister is nothing but a "rear-guard action" to douse public anger over the mismanagement of football icon Lionel Messi's event last week.
BJP co-in-charge for West Bengal Amit Malviya alleged that this is also an "open confession" that the Messi event fiasco was not accidental but a government-manufactured disaster, borne out of the poor governance of Banerjee, her ministers and the state bureaucracy.
Banerjee on Tuesday accepted Biswas' resignation as the sports minister in the wake of the controversy over the mismanagement of football icon Messi's event last week, a senior leader of the ruling TMC said.
Biswas, who had written to the chief minister seeking to be relieved of his responsibilities as sports minister, will continue as a cabinet minister, retaining charge of the power department.
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Reacting to the development, Malviya said in a post on X, "TMC Sports Minister Aroop Biswas resigns after the Messi fiasco and Mamata Banerjee accepts it in record time."
"Do not mistake this for accountability; this is nothing but a rear-guard action to douse public anger. anger! This is not 'Raj Dharma'," he added.
The BJP leader alleged that the incident was the outcome of "loot" of common people which is "so synonymous" with the TMC.
The incident was also the outcome of the "shameless VIP culture that TMC thrives on and deep-rooted cronyism promoted by Banerjee," he charged.
Malviya further alleged that Biswas' resignation exposes a "collective failure of Mamata Banerjee, her partisan bureaucracy, and her crony cabinet".
"This is a symbolic sacrifice, a political hoax, soon to be buried under layers of bureaucracy, with no justice, no accountability, and no remorse," the BJP leader said, adding, "No resignation will bring back the time lost, the money wasted, or the stolen chance for football lovers to witness Messi in Kolkata."
