Karnataka CM slams BJP for opposing caste survey
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah launched an attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for opposing the ongoing caste-based social, economic, and educational survey.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Siddaramaiah was talking to the media in Bengaluru after visiting Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, who is undergoing treatment at the M.S. Ramaiah Hospital in Bengaluru.
He said the criticism from the opposition party reflected a “Manuvadi mindset” and stood in direct contrast to the approach of their own leadership at the national level.
The chief minister argued that the survey was not intended to divide communities but to create a more equitable society. “This is a survey of all seven crore people of Karnataka. It is not against anyone, it is in favour of everyone,” he said. “The primary objective is to achieve social, economic, and educational equality, and to ensure equal share and equal life for all,” he added.
Siddaramaiah said the resistance from BJP leaders demonstrated their unwillingness to address inequality. “They want wealth, opportunities, and representation to remain concentrated in the hands of a few. They want the poor to remain poor, the backward to remain backward, and women to continue to be denied opportunities. This is the Manuvadi mindset within BJP leaders,” he declared.
He emphasised that the survey would not only capture the conditions of Dalits, backward classes, and minorities but also highlight deprivation among forward castes. “This reality is what the BJP does not want to acknowledge,” he added.
