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Demanding greater practice for the Madiga assemblage successful the State Cabinet, a federation of assorted Madiga organisations took retired a protestation march successful Kalaburagi connected Friday and urged the Congress authorities to name elder person K.H. Muniyappa arsenic the Minister for Social Welfare.
The protesters, carrying banners and raising slogans, marched done the metropolis and submitted their request to the State government.
They argued that Mr. Muniyappa, a seven-time Member of Parliament, two-time Union Minister and a elder Congress leader, possessed the acquisition and administrative credentials required to caput the Social Welfare Department.
Addressing the gathering, leaders of the federation said that the Madiga community, contempt being 1 of the largest Scheduled Castes groups successful Karnataka, has not received capable practice successful the Cabinet.
They said that portion respective different communities person secured aggregate Ministerial berths, the Madiga assemblage has been allotted lone 1 Cabinet position.
The speakers said that the State authorities often spoke of equitable practice and societal justness based connected the ideals of the Constitution and B.R. Ambedkar and contended that these principles should beryllium reflected successful the allocation of Ministerial portfolios arsenic well.
The federation urged Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar to see appointing Mr. Muniyappa arsenic Social Welfare Minister and warned that the assemblage volition intensify its agitation if its request continues to beryllium ignored.
District president of Madara Channayya Seva Samiti Dasarath Kalagurti, territory president of the Babu Jagjivan Ram Development Struggle Committee Mallikarjun Jinnakeri, metropolis president of Madiga Dandora Raju S. Kattimani, divisional president of the Karnataka State Madiga Society Chandrakant Natikar, on with respective different assemblage leaders and activists, led the protest.
