Caste survey decision by Cong brass, not Karnataka government, says CM Siddaramaiah

BENGALURU: Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah sought to clarify Wednesday that it was the Congress brass's determination and not his govt's to undertake a caller caste survey, suggesting unease astatine the imaginable of his halfway ballot slope of minorities, backward classes and Dalits not taking kindly to re-enumeration aft leaked information from the 2015 workout showed a monolithic leap successful their numbers.Siddaramaiah, nether the pump for the June 4 stampede successful Bengaluru successful which 11 cricket fans died, told reporters astatine Gauribidanur successful Chikkaballapur territory that determination were "some complaints" astir the Kantharaj Commission's caste survey data. Won't cull 2015 census report: Siddaramaiah There were claims that the information was outdated, truthful immoderate suggested a caller enumeration wrong a comparatively shorter timeline. We won't cull the (2015) report. We person already accepted it successful principle," Siddaramaiah said.On whether helium was disappointed with Congress's determination to spell for caller survey, helium said, "We volition enactment per the precocious command's directive. It's not our decision."Siddaramaiah and his lawman curate D K Shivakumar had been summoned to Delhi Tuesday for a gathering with Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge, purportedly to explicate authorities govt's nonaccomplishment to stem the outrage implicit the stampede sparked by an allegedly mismanaged triumph parade for IPL-winning cricket franchise RCB.

While Siddaramaiah appeared wary of owning the determination to enumerate caste demography afresh, Shivakumar batted connected the beforehand foot. He questioned wherefore BJP was criticising the determination to behaviour a caller survey aft refusing to judge information from erstwhile one."Why specified absorption erstwhile we are trying to code concerns? We are not rejecting the Kantharaj Commission's report. We are lone trying to close the shortcomings of the earlier survey," DKS said.