It is social justice versus Hindutva in the Udupi-Chikmagalur parliamentary seat, where the BJP's Kota Srinivas Poojari and the Congress' K Jayaprakash Hegde are facing off.Bengaluru, April 6 (IANS) It is social justice versus Hindutva in the .
The development comes within a week of the Vokkaligara Sangha, the umbrella body of Vokkaligas, giving a petition to the CM, urging him not to accept the survey, conducted by the Karnataka State Backward Class Commission. The signatories to this petition include Deputy CM DK Shivakumar and Agriculture Minister N Cheluvaraswamy as well as Congress MLAs.
The Karnataka government's decision to scrap reservations for Muslims in the OBC category is based either on selective reading of the Third Backward Class Commission report, or a strategy to deprive the community of constitutional benefits.