The state cupboard accepted the hike on Thursday, making use of it to all housing schemes underneath the Urban and Rural Development Departments
Housing and Minority Welfare Minister Zameer Ahmed Khan stated the transfer relies on a advice made in 2019 and isn’t a latest or arbitrary choice (File picture)
“Decision to order 15% for minorities in housing schemes is just not a choice taken now. The cupboard subcommittee fashioned in 2019 when HD Kumaraswamy was the chief minister within the coalition authorities had advisable it,” Khan stated, responding to rising criticism from the opposition.
He additional clarified that the reservation share mirrors current central coverage. “The central authorities already offers a 15% quota for minorities underneath housing schemes, as per the Sachar Committee report. There was a requirement that the identical needs to be given within the state. Therefore, the central mannequin has been adopted,” he stated.
The state cupboard accepted the hike on Thursday, making use of it to all housing schemes underneath the Urban and Rural Development Departments. The announcement sparked a pointy backlash from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which labelled the choice “unconstitutional” and accused the ruling Congress of communal appeasement and vote-bank politics.
Khan defended the transfer on humanitarian grounds, pointing to the acute housing scarcity confronted by many minority households. “The current 10% reservation fee has been elevated to fifteen. There are extra poor households within the minority neighborhood and the variety of homeless folks has elevated. Hence, there was a requirement to extend the reservation fee,” he defined.
He additionally cited a 2021 advice from the National Commission for Minorities, which had known as for the implementation of a 15% reservation in housing schemes. “Without understanding these factual factors, the opposition events are making pointless criticisms, which isn’t applicable,” Khan added.
Meanwhile, chief minister Siddaramaiah stated his authorities’s choice to reinforce reservation for minorities underneath housing schemes within the state from 10 to fifteen% was consistent with the Union authorities’s tips.
He termed the BJP’s criticism of it as “hypocritical and politically motivated”, and asserted that his authorities rejects the politics of hatred and division being pushed by the opposition celebration.
In a press release, he stated that is based mostly on the Prime Minister’s 15-Point Programme for the Welfare of Minorities (2019), which clearly directs all Central and State implementing businesses to earmark 15percentof bodily and monetary targets for minorities wherever doable.
Reacting to it, senior BJP chief and former chief minister BS Yediyurappa accused the Congress authorities of making social divisions. “This authorities is unnecessarily creating issues… But there’s a restrict to all the pieces. So in the event that they need to enhance it, they need to do it for everybody and all communities. This is just not appropriate; that’s the reason everyone seems to be opposing it,” he stated.
State BJP president Vijayendra Yediyurappa echoed his father’s considerations, taking to social media to time period the transfer a type of spiritual favouritism. “Reservation on the premise of faith is unconstitutional! @INCKarnataka in Karnataka has transformed welfare right into a market for vote-bank politics. First, 4% quota in authorities contracts. Now, 15 per cent quota in housing schemes. Where does this appeasement finish?” he wrote on X.
He argued that the choice dangers marginalising Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes by decreasing their share of advantages. “This is a harmful try and institutionalise communal vote-bank politics. It not solely robs SCs, STs, and OBCs of their rightful alternatives, but in addition sends a disturbing message that benefit, backwardness, and constitutional rules are secondary to spiritual appeasement,” Vijayendra posted.
With PTI inputs
