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In a bid to exert stress on each the State and Union governments to accord Scheduled Tribe (ST) tag to the Kuruba community, a congregation of non secular heads and Kuruba leaders from all events on Sunday resolved to intensify the combat for ST tag for Kurubas by asserting a road map for the motion that features a padayatra, taking a delegation to Delhi, and a large rally over the subsequent few months.
While it was determined that regional conventions can be held in Belagavi, Mysuru, Bengaluru, and Kalaburgi on varied dates from November 2020 to January 2021, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister {K}.S. Eshwarappa will lead a delegation to Delhi to meet the Central leaders. The 4 seers of the Kuruba community will launch a padayatra from Kaginele on January 15, 2021, and it’ll culminate in Bengaluru on February 7, the place a large rally shall be organised, Kaginele Seer Sri Niranjananada Swami introduced.
“The struggle will continue till Kurubas get ST tag. Despite a demand for ST tag since 1935, it has so far not bore fruit. I will fight by approaching Home Minister Amit Shah and other Union Ministers to secure the ST tag,” Mr. Eshwarappa, who’s spearheading the present motion, mentioned on the occasion at Palace Grounds right here.
Meanwhile, MLC N. Nagaraj (MTB), who was among the many 17 Congress and JD(S) legislators who resigned to trigger the autumn of the H.D. Kumaraswamy authorities final yr, mentioned it was due to the sacrifice of Kuruba legislators, together with him, A.H. Vishwanath, Byrathi Basavaraj, and R. Shankar, that the BJP authorities may very well be fashioned and B.S. Yediyurappa might turn out to be Chief Minister. “Because of the sacrifice, the demand for ST tag of Kurubas should be considered,” he mentioned.
Deputy chief of JD(S) Legislature Party Bandeppa Kashempur mentioned that the Gonds, Jenu Kuruba, and Kadu Kurubas had been getting the ST tag in a number of districts, whereas the bigger Kuruba inhabitants within the State had been denied this. There is not any political agenda behind this demand, he mentioned.
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