The Akhila Bharatha Veerashaiva Mahasabha, in a petition signed by many community leaders including Ministers, has urged the Karnataka government to undertake a fresh and “scientific” socio-economic and educational survey (caste census) based on facts, and alleged that the 2015 survey was “factually inaccurate”.
Claiming that the mahasabha is not opposed to caste census, a delegation led by its president Shamanur Shivashankarappa told Chief Minister Siddaramaiah here on Friday that the census conducted in 2015 suffered from lacunae. “There is a need to set right this problem. That is why we are appealing to you to undertake a new scientific caste survey based on facts,” the petition submitted to Mr. Siddaramaiah said.
The petition was signed by 33 of the 49 Lingayat legislators. They included Ministers Eshwar Khandre, M.B. Patil, and Shivanand Patil, BJP State president B,Y. Vijayendra, Basanagouda Patil Yatnal, and Aravind Bellad.
