Bengaluru, Sept. 22 -- Karnataka Legislative Council LoP and BJP MLC Chalavadi Narayanaswamy today raised serious concerns over the Karnataka government's ongoing caste survey, describing it as "illegal, politically motivated, and potentially harmful to social justice."Addressing a press conference here, Narayanaswamy warned that the inclusion of Christians within various caste categories could jeopardise constitutionally guaranteed reservation benefits for Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST).
He noted that caste surveys are not new in the state. Earlier, commissions under Kantaraj and later Jayaprakash Hegde had been constituted to conduct similar surveys. However, the Kantaraj report was never approved, and Hegde's commission...