The district unit of Madiga Misalati (Reservation) Horata Samithi has strongly criticised the Congress government headed by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of failing to keep up the promise of implementing the recommendations of the Justice A.J. Sadashiva Commission Report for internal reservation among the Scheduled Castes.
The Samithi threatened to picket the official residence of the Chief Minister at Bengaluru in the first week of October if the government failed to take a concrete decision on implementation of the recommendations by September.
The members of the Samithi staged protest at Rani Channamma circle on the eve of Independence Day celebrations, conveying their grievances that a large section of dalit population was yet to get “real freedom” to join the mainstream of the society.
Samithi’s district president Rajendra A. Ihole said the Samithi units had been struggling for the past 17 years to get a fair share in the reservation benefits to the Madiga community members, who have remained educationally, economically, socially and politically backward compared to other sections of SCs.
He said the Congress leaders, particularly Mr. Siddaramaiah, had promised to implement the recommendations of the report during election campaigns before coming to power in the State. In fact, Mr. Siddaramaiah had said that only a Congress government could implement the Commission’s recommendations. However, after coming to power his government had embarked on caste-based census only to delay the implementation of the Commission’s report.
It was around four years since the Justice A.J. Sadashiva submitted his report to the BJP government headed then by D.V. Sadananda Gowda.
