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The chairperson of the Karnataka State Backward Classes Commission, Jayaprakash Hegde, submitted the report of the Social, Economic and Educational Caste Census to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday. In 2014, during his previous term as Congress CM, Siddaramaiah commissioned the report to enumerate the state’s various castes as well as their socio-economic and educational status.
When the Janata Dal (Secular) announced the candidature of a multi-millionaire in Karnataka for the Rajya Sabha polls in early February despite having only 19 MLAs in hand — in a situation where 45 votes were needed — it was apparent that the JD(S) would be attempting to pull off an impossible win by teaming up with its alliance partner BJP, which had around 20 votes to spare.
The Congress government in Karnataka is considering passage of its temple funds amendment Bill in the state Assembly for a second time after the Bill was defeated in the Legislative Council by the Opposition BJP-JDS combine Friday.
The fundamental difference between how the Congress and BJP want to manage temples in Karnataka has risen to the fore following the passage of an amendment by the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government to the Karnataka Hindu Religious Institutions and Charitable Endowments Act, 1997, in the ongoing Budget Session of the state Assembly.
HE MAY have slim prospects of victory, but the entry of multi-millionaire real estate baron D Kupendra Reddy in the Rajya Sabha poll fray in Karnataka means there are now five candidates for four seats, forcing an election on February 27. The 63-year-old, who declared Rs 1,200 crore assets in his election affidavit, has been fielded by the JD(S)-BJP combine, in what is seen as a bid to test the unity and resolve of the state’s ruling Congress.
After discussions stretching months, as many as 34 Congress MLAs in Karnataka who did not make it to the Cabinet last year were on Friday appointed chairpersons of boards and corporations run by the state government.
With the Lok Sabha polls fast approaching, the BJP in Karnataka finds itself in a curious jam in its Hindutva stronghold constituencies in the coastal belt of the state.
In preliminary seat-sharing talks concluded in New Delhi on Thursday, the BJP and the Janata Dal (Secular), its new alliance partner in Karnataka for the Lok Sabha polls, have decided to work with “mutual trust and consultation” in the choice of candidates for the 28 Lok Sabha seats in the state.