Bengaluru, 29 Oct

Karnataka BJP President BY Vijayendra on Tuesday said that Congress government in the state and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah were not honest on internal reservation among SCs and were only trying to use the issue for politics ahead of bypolls for three Assembly segments.

The Karnataka Cabinet on Monday gave its consent to provide internal reservation among Scheduled Castes (SC) and decided to constitute a commission under a retired High Court judge that will be tasked with collecting empirical data.

"If at all Chief Minister Siddaramaiah was serious about internal reservation, also on the Kantharaj report (on Socio-Economic and Education Survey, popularly known as the caste census) he would have taken action long back," Vijayendra said in response to a question on internal reservation.

Speaking to reporters here, he said, "BJP has repeatedly made it clear (its stand) on the subject, but Siddaramaiah and Congress party when by-elections are round the corner, they are trying to politicise this issue, but they are not honest on this subject." -PTI