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The Minister of Law and Parliamentary Affairs of Karnataka, HK Patil, spoke exclusively to News18, said the cabinet had a detailed discussion about the parameters used in the survey.
Karnataka Law Minister MB Patil, with CM Siddaramaiah. (Image: PTI)
The special cabinet meeting held to discuss the social and educational survey, widely known as the cast of the cast, did not make an important advance and no final call was tasks. The problem will be addressed again at the next special cabinet meeting to discuss the census that has been scheduled for May 2.
The Minister of Law and Parliamentary Affairs of Karnataka, HK Patil, spoke exclusively to News18, said the cabinet had a detailed discussion about the parameters used in the survey, and the senior officials asked to provide technical clarifications.
While there has been an intense political political war on words about the report, as a special of the main leaders of the communities of Vokkiga and Lingayat, Patil clarified that no such verbal exchange heated at the cabinet meeting.
“It was not at all a heated debate. It was a cordial and academic discussion. We talked extensively about social conditions, educational opportunities and how society is evolving. Each process appreciated the process through what the survey was conducted,” said Patil A.
But the lack of consensus continues to hang on the report. It is known that the main minister had assured all the ministers that they would give enough time to present their views, both in person and in writing, before a decision was made.
Several leaders have publicly declared that they do not agree with the findings.
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The sources told News18 that Prime Minister Siddaramaiah, at the beginning of the cabinet meeting, urged his ministers to express their views freely and without confrontation. You learn to have told them that the census aims to help all communities, including those that oppose. “If there are discrepancies, we will go together,” he told Siddaramaiah, he told his cabinet.
Patil said the discussions had covered population data, delay criteria and the economic and educational indicators used in the survey, but said that a deeper immersion is needed.
“The next cabinet meeting will be a hero in MM Hills in the Chamarajanagar district, where the development problems of the region will be discussed. This matter will also appear on May 2, when the cabinet is likely to have a final view,” he said.
The delayed census report, prepared by the Karnataka State Commission for backward classes, was finally placed before the cabinet on April 11. The prime minister of duration began in 2015, Prime Minister Siddaramaiah, the lawn Kantharaju. The final report was presented much later in February 2024 by current President K Jayaprakash Hegde.
Since the presentation of the report, several communities that include the dominant political and Veerashaiva-Lingyats voccalas have raised objections, questioning the methodology and affirming that the report divides their popular categories of Subcast, leading leaders, leaders, leaders, leading, categories of persecution, leadership. Many have also marked gaps in the data, claiming that several homes were lost or subcondered.
With the opposition of these influential groups that become stronger, the caste census has become a politically loaded problem. While Dalit and OBC communities are apparently open to accept this census, they also demand that the report be made public and implemented. However, the Dalit and OBC groups have recovered behind the report, noting that the Government has already spent 160 million rupees in the year. They argue that it insoves the discard of the findings, the government should the report as a base and develop a system of review, verification and update.
Meanwhile, the BJP and the JD (s) have attacked the survey as “non -scientific” and demanded that it be discarded and renewed.
Minister Patil ruled out questions about the credibility of the data, saying that 94.17 percent of the population was covered in the survey. He also clarified that there was no specific discussion in the cabinet about the numbers attributed to voccators or Verashaiva-Lingayats.
The former president of the Jayaprakash Hegde commission also strongly defended the report, saying that the data collection process was rigorous and the accusations of bias without foundation.
Talking to News18, said the report that the cabinet should accept the report. “If there is any error, it can be corrected. But do not reject the report without reading it,” he said.
Hey, that the proposed increase in reserves is only for Muslims, as it has been suggested in some filtered parts of the report. “The entire community that is underrepresented has given more. I can not reveal the numbers now, but it is not about percentages. An expert committee analyzed the data, the great weight for each hunting and the Wereys communities,” hey placement.
Answering the questions about obsolete data, Hegde said that the national census is still based on figures in 2011. “This survey was carried out later, in 2014-15. The last census was in 1932. Everything else since then has been a sample survey. This covers 5.98 million people. Even if there is a 5 percent error margin, which can be adjusted.
Hegde was blunt when asked about the accusations that the survey was not scientific. “What is scientist and what is not? Who just read the report to say that? These are without foundation statements. If some points of a real error, I am open to correction, but I will not pay attention to random accusations,” he said.