Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said on Monday that he has encouraged State Commission for Backward Classes head K Jayaprakash to submit the caste census report and that his administration will surely disclose the data once it is done, news agency PTI reported. During a press briefing at the headquarters of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), Rahul Gandhi stated: “We are in discussion. We are very clear what our direction is, those action will be taken.”
Sitting next to Gandhi, Siddaramaiah stated that the Karnataka State Permanent Backward Classes Commission was entrusted with conducting the caste census under the previous government of the party in the southern state in 2014-15.
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“By the time our term was over, the report was not ready. Then, a coalition government was there in Karnataka after 2018. The caste census report was ready, but the coalition government’s chief minister, H D Kumaraswamy, did not receive it. Now, the report is lying with the permanent backward class commission,” he was quoted by PTI in its report.
“I have requested the present chairman, Jayaprakash Hegde, to submit the report to the government. If he submits the report, we will definitely issue the report,” Siddaramaiah added.
Last week, Jayaprakash stated that he will present the caste census report to the state government in November.
“When the Kantharaj-headed commission gave the report, the then chief minister Kumaraswamy did not take it. Now, there is a different chairman for the commission. I have asked him to submit the report filed by Kantharaj as it is. He has said the report will be given in November, let us see,” Siddaramaiah informed reporters last week.