Yediyurappa asks OBC panel to submit report on Panchamasali demand
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In the House, he had mentioned he can take a name solely after consulting nationwide leaders
Hours after his assertion on reservation within the Assembly led to outrage amongst leaders of the agitating Panchamasali (Lingayat) neighborhood, Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa took to damage-control mode.
He directed the Karnataka Backward Classes Commission to perform an in depth research on the demand for inclusion of Panchamasalis in 2-A class of the opposite backward courses (OBC) listing and submit a report.
Clarifying that he had solely mentioned that problem might be taken up after convincing the central management, he reminded the neighborhood that it was the BJP authorities that gave them reservation beneath Category 3B. “Decisions on such a critical matter cannot be taken in a hurry. This needs to be discussed with experts before any decision is taken,” he mentioned in an announcement issued on Friday night time.
Earlier within the day, within the Assembly, Mr. Yediyurappa confronted embarrassment when his bete noire and BJP member Basanagouda Patil Yatnal demanded his assertion within the House on the continued agitations by the Panchamasalis in search of inclusion beneath 2-A class.
A visibly irked Chief Minister mentioned he can’t make an announcement with out consulting the Prime Minister and different central leaders. “We are not a regional party and I do not have the powers to take unilateral decisions,” he had mentioned. Mr. Yatnal countered it by saying the State authorities had powers to make a suggestion and the Chief Minister shouldn’t evade the problem by naming the Prime Minister.
Seer expresses outrage
Later within the day, Lingayat Panchamasali Peetha head Jaya Mrityunjana Swami, who’s presently main a padayatra to Bengaluru, expressed outrage over the Chief Minister’s stand.
“After I announced that I would return the budgetary allocation to the math, the Chief Minister called me and assured me that the community would be given reservation under category 2A. He said he would take a report from the Karnataka Permanent Backward Classes Commission and take it further. But his statement in the Assembly has deeply pained us,” the seer mentioned.
The seer demanded that the Chief Minister should resign, as he had failed to maintain his phrase and therefore had misplaced the help of the Panchamasali neighborhood. “There are many capable leaders among Lingayats. Let one of them be made Chief Minister,” the seer mentioned.
