Shortly after Vokkaligara Sangha, the All India Veerashaiva Mahasabha has also taken objection to the Socio-Economic and Education Survey, popularly called caste census, and demanded that the State government not accept its report. The Veerashaiva body has demanded that the entire exercise be redone.
The survey was conducted in 2015 during the previous tenure of the Congress.
These demands come even as Chairman of Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes K. Jayaprakash Hegde has said he would submit the report before his tenure ends on November 26, and the Congress has been batting for a nation-wide caste census. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah also recently said that his government was committed to accepting the caste census report.
