<p align="justify" class="title">Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that Congress Parliamentary Party Chief <a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/658309/sonia-calls-alliance-defeat-bjp.html">Sonia Gandhi's call for alliances</a> with like-minded parties to beat the BJP applies to the national level, but not in Karnataka.<br /><br />He said that the recently announced BSP alliance with JD(S) would have no impact on the Congress in the upcoming Karnataka elections. </p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">He spoke to reporters at the helipad near Bellodi, Harihar taluk, where he was set to attend the Kanaka Guru Peetha silver jubilee function on Friday. <br /><br />Congress has conducted a survey to gather opinions and determine the list of candidates for the upcoming election, said Siddaramaiah. He said that the party had dispatched observers to gather information. <br /><br />"I have taken cognizance of Bisi-Oota workers' protests. The concerned minister will visit them and find out their demands," he assured.<br /><br />The caste census will be made public once the commission tables its report, the CM stated in reply to a question. <br /><br />"The government has no intention of taking over any mutt or temple," Siddaramaiah reiterated.<br /><br />"We have merely published the same order passed in 2007 by the coalition government in the state then. This is not our proposal. The media has misunderstood this," the CM remarked. </p>
<p align="justify" class="title">Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that Congress Parliamentary Party Chief <a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/658309/sonia-calls-alliance-defeat-bjp.html">Sonia Gandhi's call for alliances</a> with like-minded parties to beat the BJP applies to the national level, but not in Karnataka.<br /><br />He said that the recently announced BSP alliance with JD(S) would have no impact on the Congress in the upcoming Karnataka elections. </p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">He spoke to reporters at the helipad near Bellodi, Harihar taluk, where he was set to attend the Kanaka Guru Peetha silver jubilee function on Friday. <br /><br />Congress has conducted a survey to gather opinions and determine the list of candidates for the upcoming election, said Siddaramaiah. He said that the party had dispatched observers to gather information. <br /><br />"I have taken cognizance of Bisi-Oota workers' protests. The concerned minister will visit them and find out their demands," he assured.<br /><br />The caste census will be made public once the commission tables its report, the CM stated in reply to a question. <br /><br />"The government has no intention of taking over any mutt or temple," Siddaramaiah reiterated.<br /><br />"We have merely published the same order passed in 2007 by the coalition government in the state then. This is not our proposal. The media has misunderstood this," the CM remarked. </p>
