<p>"If the Government is committed on implementing internal reservation, why the delay? Let the Government notify the orders tomorrow itself," Gowda said addressing a press conference in Bangalore.<br /><br />He said the JD(S) had been pressing for internal reservation for the last 15 years. Gowda said he had even written to the then coalition government headed by H D Kumaraswamy in May 2006 to implement the same. "However, the move was dropped as Yeddyurappa was against its implementation," Gowda said.<br /><br />He accused Yeddyurappa of indulging in caste-politics. "Of the 18 universities in the State, as many as 13 Vice-Chancellors are from the Lingayat community," he said accusing the CM of projecting candidates from his own community.<br /><br />Gowda said the JD(S) had always stood for uplifting the members of the backward classes. <br />"Infact, it was during my tenure that the reservation quota for Vokkaligas was reduced from nine to four per cent. I even removed the community from the list of backward classes," he said countering Yeddyurappa's charges that Gowda was using the Vokkaliga community as a vote bank.<br /><br />The decision of the Government to clip the wings of the State Backward Classes Commission itself was indicative of its intentions, Gowda charged.<br /></p>
<p>"If the Government is committed on implementing internal reservation, why the delay? Let the Government notify the orders tomorrow itself," Gowda said addressing a press conference in Bangalore.<br /><br />He said the JD(S) had been pressing for internal reservation for the last 15 years. Gowda said he had even written to the then coalition government headed by H D Kumaraswamy in May 2006 to implement the same. "However, the move was dropped as Yeddyurappa was against its implementation," Gowda said.<br /><br />He accused Yeddyurappa of indulging in caste-politics. "Of the 18 universities in the State, as many as 13 Vice-Chancellors are from the Lingayat community," he said accusing the CM of projecting candidates from his own community.<br /><br />Gowda said the JD(S) had always stood for uplifting the members of the backward classes. <br />"Infact, it was during my tenure that the reservation quota for Vokkaligas was reduced from nine to four per cent. I even removed the community from the list of backward classes," he said countering Yeddyurappa's charges that Gowda was using the Vokkaliga community as a vote bank.<br /><br />The decision of the Government to clip the wings of the State Backward Classes Commission itself was indicative of its intentions, Gowda charged.<br /></p>
