Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah announced the initiation of a new socio-educational survey, to be completed within 90 days. He said that as per the law, it was necessary to conduct a fresh survey.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah wrote a letter Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu urging him to lift the ban over the entry of Karnataka's Totapari mangoes on Andhra's Chittoor district.
"After the Mahakumbh stampede, Congress demands UP CM's resignation. It is the job of the Opposition to demand resignations. Just like them, we are also demanding the resignation (of CM Siddaramaiah)," Athawale said.
Leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka Assembly R Ashoka on Tuesday alleged that the Congress High Command has delivered a "slap in the face" to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah by ordering a fresh caste census, calling it a "victory" for Deputy CM DK Shivakumar and a "defeat" for the CM.
"The Congress high command has done injustice to the backward classes. The Congress high command also slammed Siddaramaiah, saying that it was 10 years old and the figures were old," Ravikumar, also the Chief Whip of Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Council, told reporters here.
In the wake of the recent stampede in Bengaluru and mounting pressure from the BJP demanding the resignation of Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Congress MP Manickam Tagore has firmly defended the state leadership and accused the BJP of politicising the incident.
On June 4, the stampede that occurred during celebrations outside M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru during the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) Indian Premier League (IPL) victory celebrations claimed 11 lives.
BJP National Spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla on Wednesday lashed out at the Karnataka government for terming the Bengaluru stampede as an "accident" and said that it was a "state-sponsored murder."
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah dismissed the BJP's demand for his resignation over the Bengaluru stampede, accusing the party of "doing politics in everything".