Ahead of May 10 polls, CM Basavaraj Bommai-led BJP government last month scrapped the 4 per cent backward classes quota for Muslims and realloted the Muslim OBC quota to the two most dominant communities in the state, Lingayats and Vokkaligas.
The Karnataka government announced two new categories for reservation in jobs and education and scrapped the four per cent quota for Other Backward Classes Muslims.
Protests by the Banjara community against the proposal for subcategories within the SC segment is a sign of the undoing of calculations of political parties.
Banjara stir on Monday may be sign of things to come, as internal reservations within Dalit quota changed. But BJP seems confident will ride out storm on account of other caste measures