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Former curate K.S. Eshwarappa has urged Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to clarify his stand connected the contented of Scheduled Tribe tag for Kurubas and wants the State Government to respond to the Central Government’s correspondence connected the issue.
In a property league successful Shivamogga connected Friday (October 10, 2025), Mr. Eshwarappa said that the Basavaraj Bommai-led BJP authorities took a determination to urge the Centre to see the ST tag for the Kurubas, pursuing protests and padayatra by the leaders of the caste nether the enactment of Niranjanandapuri Swamy and others.
“CM Siddaramaiah, precocious astatine a programme to observe Valmiki Jayanti, recalled my efforts successful organising the padayatra seeking the ST tag for the Kurubas. I person nary hesitation to admit my relation successful it. We took retired a 350-km padayatra to enactment unit connected the authorities successful 2021. The Bommai-led furniture took the decision. The Congress authorities recommended the aforesaid to the Centre,” helium stated.
The proposal was made based connected the ethnographic survey of the caste. “Now, the Centre is said to person sought clarifications from the State Government connected the recommendation. I privation the authorities authorities would respond to it,” helium said.
Further, helium maintained that not lone Kurubas, each the castes that merit the ST tag person the rights to demand. “If a caste demands the ST tag, it does not mean that they are snatching the stock of idiosyncratic else. With the inclusion of the caller castes nether the STs, the quantum of preservation should spell successful tune with the population,” helium added.
