Internal quota issue hangs fire with discussion incomplete in Cabinet

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Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister H.K. Patil addressing the media aft  the Cabinet gathering  up  of State Budget, successful  Bengaluru connected  Thursday.

Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister H.K. Patil addressing the media aft the Cabinet gathering up of State Budget, successful Bengaluru connected Thursday. | Photo Credit: ALLEN EGENUSE J.

The vexed contented of interior preservation is acceptable to bog down the Karnataka authorities for immoderate much clip to come, arsenic the Cabinet gathering connected Thursday could not get astatine a decision. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah told his colleagues that a determination could beryllium taken astatine a peculiar Cabinet conscionable that would beryllium called shortly.

With this, the determination to spell up with the recruitment for 56,432 posts with a 50% headdress connected preservation and without interior preservation inactive holds ground.

Even aft a agelong deliberation, the Cabinet could not get astatine a determination arsenic absorption to interior preservation wrong the 15% preservation quota for Scheduled Castes came connected ineligible grounds, and the occupation that could originate with roster system, sources said. The Chief Minister is learnt to person changeable down a connection to acceptable up a committee to urge a solution.

“There was a agelong deliberation, but treatment remained incomplete. All Ministers were not capable to enactment distant their views. The Chief Minister suggested that the determination tin beryllium taken successful the adjacent Cabinet meet,” Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister H.K. Patil told presspersons present during the Cabinet briefing.

“Whatever the Cabinet decided earlier (about recruitment with 50% headdress connected preservation and without interior quota) does not change. The adjacent Cabinet conscionable to sermon the contented volition beryllium convened arsenic aboriginal arsenic possible,” helium said.

The interior preservation contented has created a rift betwixt Dalit communities, with Dalit near (Madiga and others) communities insisting connected interior preservation wrong 15% preservation quota portion the Dalit close (Holeya and others) opposing it.

Earlier successful the day, Mr. Siddaramaiah is learnt to person discussed the substance with retired justice H.N. Nagmohan Das, based connected whose reports the preservation for SCs and STs had been accrued from 15% to 17% and 3% to 7%, respectively, and interior preservation matrix drawn. He besides met Advocate-General K. Shashikiran Shetty to question ineligible proposal implicit the matter, sources said.

Sources said that the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms bid past Saturday that laid down the guidelines for recruitment authorities/ departments successful which preservation issues person been covered volition not beryllium disturbed till the Cabinet decides connected the interior preservation issue.

Published - March 05, 2026 11:56 p.m. IST

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