Amid din over Bengaluru stampede, Congress orders new Karnataka caste survey

NEW DELHI/BENGALURU: Congress decided Tuesday to undertake a caller caste survey successful Karnataka, citing rumblings wrong the state's ascendant communities astir the reliability of the 2015 enumeration data, and asking CM Siddaramaiah and his lawman DK Shivakumar to people a 60- to 80-day timeframe for the exercise.Sources said the contiguous inducement for the Congress brass to propulsion the workout was to present thing that would perchance instrumentality the vigor disconnected the Siddaramaiah govt amid an accountability situation successful the aftermath of the June 4 Bengaluru stampede successful which 11 cricket fans died.Also read: Congress apical brass raps authorities portion for Bengaluru stampede"The enactment agrees successful rule with the authorities govt connected addressing the concerns of immoderate communities that person reservations astir caste data, which is simply a decennary aged and outdated.

Hence, the enactment suggested re-enumeration wrong a stipulated time," AICC wide caput KC Venugopal said.The determination efficaciously means that the Kantharaj Commission's 2015 study goes into heavy freeze, though Venugopal said it would beryllium "discussed" astatine a furniture gathering scheduled for Thursday.Siddaramaiah said the projected re-enumeration would mimic the ongoing survey of Scheduled Castes successful the authorities and would apt beryllium completed wrong 3 months.

Leaked information from the Kantharaj Commission's study suggest Siddaramaiah's halfway ballot slope of Ahinda (Kannada acronym for minorities, backward classes and Dalits) has grown exponentially, compared to the Lingayat and Vokkaliga communities.Congress insiders suggested that CM's reluctance, if any, to judge the determination to behaviour a caller caste survey would beryllium balanced by the imaginable of the stampede backlash getting "lost successful the caller noise".Deputy CM Shivakumar said the determination was meant to alteration everyone to resubmit accusation during house-to-house surveys and done online submissions. "Since this process would beryllium an extended one, we volition determine the strategy astatine the adjacent furniture meeting. CM volition past denote the timeline."