Siddaramaiah raises hijab, janivara issue only when his chair is under threat, says Karjol

BJP MP Govind Karjol connected Sunday said that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is making an effort to divert nationalist attraction by raising issues specified arsenic hijab, janivara and Shivadhara astatine a clip erstwhile his “chair is nether threat”.

Responding to questions from reporters successful Kalaburagi, Mr. Karjol said that practices specified arsenic wearing hijab, janivara and Shivadhara are not caller and they person existed arsenic portion of Indian civilization for generations.

He said that schoolhouse uniforms person been introduced to guarantee equality among students and determination is, therefore, nary request for issuing orders regarding hijab oregon janivara.

“Whenever Siddaramaiah’s presumption has travel nether threat, helium has resorted to specified gimmicks. He is trying to mislead people. He ordered caste surveys doubly but, the reports ne'er came out. Such gimmicks person continued during his 8 years successful power,” Mr. Karjol said.

Later, speaking astatine the taluk-level commencement day celebrations of Babu Jagjivan Ram organised astatine Aakruti Kalyana Mantapa successful Kamalapur, the BJP person accused the State authorities of doing injustice to the Madiga assemblage successful the substance of interior reservation.

He said that some the Nagamohan Das Commission and the Sadashiva Commission person recommended 6% preservation for the Madiga assemblage successful the Scheduled Castes class successful presumption of its larger population. But the Congress authorities has provided them with lone 5.25%, helium added.

“We are not against anyone. We are lone demanding our rightful share. If it is not granted, we volition organise a monolithic agitation,” helium warned.

Mr. Karjol said that the Congress promised implementation of interior preservation successful the precise archetypal Assembly league if voted to powerfulness successful 2013 and again successful 2023, but it has failed to fulfil the promise.

He besides criticised the State government’s interior preservation bid stating that it volition use lone successful departments wherever much than 14 posts beryllium thereby, limiting opportunities for Madiga youth.

“Large posts are disposable lone successful constricted numbers. This volition effect successful injustice to our children. Reservation volition beryllium confined to lower-level jobs specified arsenic pourakarmikas, constabulary unit and teachers,” helium said.

Mr. Karjol said that B.R. Ambedkar primitively envisioned preservation for lone 10 years but aft his demise, it was Babu Jagjivan Ram who worked for its continuation.

Recalling Jagjivan Ram’s publication arsenic Union Agriculture Minister, helium said that the Green Revolution initiated nether his enactment transformed India from a food-deficit federation into 1 susceptible of feeding a colonisation of 145 crore people.

Seer Niragudi Hawa Mallinath Maharaj and respective section BJP leaders and organisers were contiguous astatine the programme.