The reservation coverage in Karnataka has come to be a heated political issue, with the Congress birthday birthday celebration providing to boom the reservation for disadvantaged instructions to 75% if voted to electricity in the imminent kingdom meeting elections. In response, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has stated that such an boom isn’t always feasible constitutionally.
The Congress birthday birthday celebration`s idea is visible as a counter to the BJP`s choice to boom reservations for Lingayats, Vokkaligas, Scheduled Castes, and Scheduled Tribes, even as doing away with the 4 consistent with cent reservation for Muslims, which they, in turn, deem “unconstitutional.”
On Thursday, former leader minister and Congress chief Siddaramaiah stated that his birthday birthday celebration could boom the reservation restrict in Karnataka from 50% to 75% if voted to electricity in the imminent Assembly elections. However, former leader minister BS Yediyurappa stated it’d by no means be met because the Opposition birthday birthday celebration withinside the kingdom “changed into headed for defeat”.
“Since he (Siddaramaiah) goes to lose miserably, the query of growing the reservation restrict withinside the kingdom does now no longer arise. We [BJP] are going to do the whole thing in our electricity to shape the authorities,” the veteran Lingayat chief stated.
Another BJP chief, Shobhna Karandlaje, stated growing the reservation changed into now no longer feasible as “there’s a 50% cap imposed via way of means of the Supreme Court”.
Siddaramaiah countered, pronouncing the reservation has already breached the 50% ceiling constant via way of means of the Supreme Court in Karnataka and requested why it can`t be similarly accelerated to 75% to offer reservation to all of the deserving groups.
“The reservation has already breached the 50% restrict. With the boom withinside the reservation for SCs & STs primarily based totally on the advice of Nagmohan Das`s commission, the full reservation is now 56%. Why can`t this be similarly accelerated to 75% to offer reservations to all of the deserving groups?” he tweeted on Thursday.
Hitting out at senior BJP chief Shobha Karandlaje, he stated, “@ShobhaBJPvthinks that the reservation can not be accelerated past 50%, how did they boom the reservation for SCs & STs?
The complete manner is BJP`s election gimmick!! @BJP4Karnataka has no goal of really growing the reservation for SC/STs.”
Days after Union domestic minister Amit Shah wondered Congress`s stand on reservation for Lingayats and Vokkaligas, Siddaramaiah on Wednesday, in a chain of tweets, stated that the birthday birthday celebration could boom the reservation cap from 50 to 75% giving reservation to all groups primarily based totally at the populace.
Shah on Monday requested Congress to make clear its stand at the reservation after the Opposition leaders stated they could revoke the cancellation of 4% reservation to Muslims. “I humbly ask Congress leaders from in which they could carry returned reservations for Muslims. Where could they lessen the reservation? Do you need to lessen the reservation of Vokkaligas, Lingayats, Dalits, SC or STs?” he had requested.
Responding to the house minister, Siddaramaiah on Wednesday, in a chain of tweets, stated “each deserving network can be given reservation” with out scrapping reservation for Muslims.
“There isn’t anyt any want to scrap the reservation for Muslims to boom the reservation for Vokkaligas and Lingayats. Every deserving network may be given a reservation primarily based totally on their populace if the reservation restrict of 50% is removed. BJP by no means had an intension of giving reservation to Vokkaligas & Lingayats, however had been best interested by doing away with the reservation for Muslims,” the senior Congress chief tweeted.
Siddaramaiah clarified that Congress isn’t always in opposition to growing the reservations for Vokkaligas and Lingayats. “We aren’t in opposition to growing the reservation for Vokkaligas or Lingayats or some other network. We aid the boom in reservations for all of us primarily based totally on their populace. We are best opposing @BJP4Karnataka`s eye wash at some point of elections.”
Further, the previous leader minister stated that Congress could deliver reservations to deserving groups via way of means of growing the reservation ceiling from 50% to 75%. “Congress birthday birthday celebration is devoted to growing the reservation restrict from 50% to 75%, and to boom reservation to all castes primarily based totally on their populace.”
On March 27, the kingdom authorities determined to scrap the 4% quota for Muslims withinside the 2B class of the Other Backward Castes (OBC) in authorities employment and education. It changed into disbursed similarly most of the Vokkaliga and Lingayat castes instead.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the authorities order (GO), with the kingdom authorities conceding earlier than the courtroom docket that it’s going to now no longer put in force the GO scrapping reservation for the Muslim network and that the “in advance regime” could be in vicinity until the following date of listening to, May 9.
“We had determined that until the time the listening to is complete, we can now no longer take it forward. Court has now no longer given any stay. We best have stated that you (SC) pay attention the case; see you later the case is heard, we can now no longer put in force it,” Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai advised journalists on Tuesday.
Though the kingdom authorities revoked reservations primarily based totally on religion, Muslims had been blanketed beneathneath the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) class, Bommai stated, adding, “We have now no longer carried out any injustice to them.”
