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Will seek report from Backward Classes panel on hiking Vokkaliga quota: Bommai | Bengaluru

PTI | | Posted by Yamini C S Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday said he has asked the Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes to submit a report on the various demands of the dominant Vokkaliga community in the state. Bommai was reacting to the memorandum submitted by the Vokkaliga ministers and BJP legislators demanding increase in reservation for the Vokkaligas, a farming community. The key demand of these BJP leaders was that the reservation for Vokkaligas under the 3A category of the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) should be increased from four per cent to 12 per cent. “My cabinet colleagues and the MLAs today submitted a memorandum. In their memo, they have said that the Vokkaliga population has increased. They want more opportunities in jobs and admission for their youth,” Bommai told reporters. READ | Karnataka government plans to start short-term courses for girls on self-defence He added that the Adi Chunchanagiri Math seer Nirmalanandanath Swamiji too had a meeting on this issue and had submitted a memorandum to him as well. The …