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Supporters of Home Minister and erstwhile Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president G. Parameshwara revived the request for a Dalit Chief Minister successful Karnataka by propping up Mr. Parameshwara’s candidature for the post. This comes amid the ongoing enactment tussle betwixt Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar.
Addressing a property league successful Mysuru connected December 28, Dalit person Bilikere Raju said Dalit organisations, on with the enactment of organisations of assorted different communities, are readying to clasp a normal successful Mysuru to mobilise enactment for Mr. Parameshwara, who is simply a “deserving” campaigner for the post.
Mr. Raju said Dalits had not been fixed their owed designation successful AHINDA, though the grouping comprises minorities, backward classes, and Dalits.
The Dalit leader, who besides represents the G. Parameshwara Admirers’ Association, placed a information to be the projected AHINDA normal successful Mysuru. “We volition be the normal lone if it supports Mr. Parameshwara’s candidature for the Chief Minister’s post,” helium said.
Regretting that Dalits had truthful acold been utilized successful the AHINDA question lone to unafraid powerfulness for “somebody else”, Mr. Raju said a Dalit Chief Minister for Karnataka has been owed for implicit 25 years.
He pointed retired that Dalits were numerically beardown capable to power the result of polls successful 150 retired of the 223 constituencies successful the State. About 80 to 90% of Dalits had voted for the Congress successful the past Assembly elections, helium said.
Even though determination are deserving candidates successful the Dalit assemblage for the station of Chief Minister, cipher has occupied the station truthful far, helium lamented.
Without straight blaming anyone for Mr. Parameshwara’s nonaccomplishment successful the Assembly elections successful 2013, Mr. Raju said “everyone” knows the reasons for his defeat.
A ample fig of radical successful Mysuru, Chamarajanagar, Hassan, Mandya and adjacent Kanakapura are successful favour of Mr. Parameshwara becoming the Chief Minister, helium said, portion adding that the organisations had started moving connected the normal arsenic their imagination of seeing Mr. Parameshwara arsenic the Chief Minister volition not materialise if they bash not get into enactment and behaviour specified mobilisation exercises.
