Madiga Dandora, which is spearheading a movement seeking internal reservation among Scheduled Castes, has given a call to its activists to lay down their lives on Republic Day to protest against the inordinate delay on the part of the State government in accepting the Justice A.J. Sadashiva Commission report and recommending to the Union government to implement it.
"Our activists will resort to this extreme step in all the 30 districts of the State, while the national flag is being unfurled in their respective districts on Republic Day, to register our protest agianst the inaction of the government to provide internal reservation," B. Narasanna, vice-president of the State unit of Madiga Dandora told presspersons here on Saturday.
Mr. Narasanna came down heavily on the Siddaramaiah government for not initiating steps to implement the Justice Sadashiva Commission report.
According to him, though the population of Scheduled Caste was more and were subjected to continued injustice, several other castes which got the SC tag were enjoying the benefits of reservation. "In this background, we urged the government to provide internal reservations among the Scheduled castes based on the population. It is unfortunate that though the Justice Sadashiva Commission had submitted its report long back, there has been no response from the State government,” he said.
"We are remembered only during elections with promises to implement the Justice Sadashiva Commission report only to be forgotten immediately afterwards,” he charged.
B. Parushuram, district unit president, and other office-bearers were present.
