Karnataka | Internal quota move is final nail in coffin, says BJP

Bengaluru: The Opposition BJP on Saturday launched a sharp attack on Chief Minister Siddaramaiah over the government’s decision on internal reservation for Scheduled Castes (SC), which the saffron party described as “final nail in the coffin.”  Addressing a news conference, Chitradurga MP Govind Karjol, a former deputy chief minister, asked the government to clarify if it had rejected the Justice H N Nagamohan Das Commission’s report as unscientific. 

The government’s decision to divide the 15 per cent SC reservation into 5.25 per cent for the Dalit (Left), 5.25% for Dalit (Right) and 4.5 per cent for the remaining “betrays” the marginalised communities, Karjol said. 

Leader of the Opposition in Legislative Council Chalavadi Narayanaswamy said the decision, made after a three-year delay, was arbitrary and would not stand legal scrutiny. Narayanaswamy said SCs were “left in the lurch.”