Bengaluru, Feb. 29 -- Former Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai urged the state government to clarify whether the socio-economic and education survey report, commonly known as the caste census report, that was received by Chief Minister Siddaramiah in Bengaluru was the Kantharaj report or the Jayprakash Hegde report.

Bommai told reporters here on Thursday that four to five petitions have been pending before the Supreme Court on who should conduct the caste census.

"In the current report, some sub-castes have been separated from the main castes and vice versa in the case of other castes. The state government must clarify it's stand on the report. There must be a public debate on the report. The BJP was not against the backward cla...