Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Shehzad Poonawalla on Monday unleashed a fierce critique of the Congress party, branding it as "anti-constitution, anti-reservation, and anti-Ambedkar" in reaction to a reported statement by Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar.
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar defended Karnataka state cabinet passing a bill granting a four per cent reservation to Muslims in public contracts and said that it was done to protect the backward class people.
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Sunday slammed Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai's remarks on delimitation, calling him unimportant and lacking knowledge on the matter.
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar has termed the first Joint Action Committee (JAC) meeting on delimitation as "a good beginning" to save "the federal structure and the constitution of this country." The meeting, hosted by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, was held here on Sa
The JAC unanimously demanded transparency from the Union government over any delimitation exercise and asked to extend the freeze on Parliamentary constituencies based on 1971 Census Population for next 25 years.
Reiterating Union Home Minister Amit Shah's comment on DMK in Rajya Sabha, Bharatiya Janata Party's Tamilisai Soundarajan slammed Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin over conducting the 1st Joint Action Committee Meeting on the issue of delimitation.
Shivakumar further congratulated Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin for taking this step. Expressing pride, Shivakumar stated that Stalin is protecting the federal structure and the Constitution of this country.
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, along with several other ministers, participated in the Cauvery Aarti in Bengaluru on Friday, offering prayers to the sacred river.
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Friday lashed out at the BJP as a "cultureless party" which patronised Bombay Boys and whose party member assaulted a woman in the Vidhana Soudha.
Speaking to reporters at Vidhana Soudha, Shivakumar said, "The government has planned to organise Cauvery aarti at Sankey tank along with the water conservation campaign. This is purely a government programme, but some have moved court. We will argue our case in the court of law."
Dismissing allegations of vendetta politics, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Thursday said the government officials had followed the orders of a court in the encroachment case against Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy.
The Karnataka state cabinet approved an amendment to the Karnataka Transparency in Public Procurement (KTPP) Act, which aims to provide 4 per cent reservation in tenders to Minority contractors, official sources said.