Senior Cong leader Veerappa Moily asks K'taka govt to release caste census report

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily on Tuesday asked the Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to release the report of the caste census conducted in the State.

Moily, a former Union Law Minister, noted the caste census was conducted by the then Karnataka State Backward Classes Commission under the chairmanship of H Kantharaj during the previous tenure of Siddaramaiah as Chief Minister (2013-2018) and it had later submitted the report.

"And the report was available with both during the tenure of (H D) Kumaraswamy, (B S) Yediyurappa and (Basavaraj) Bommai as CM (between 2018 and 2023). That means they (JDS and BJP) are not for that (releasing the report), it was very clear," Moily told PTI.

"Whenever the Congress government comes (to power), we are anxious to serve the interests of the backward classes," he said.