Bengaluru, Nov. 14 -- Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to personally intervene and initiate the process of bringing a Constitution Amendment Bill in Parliament to include the state's enhanced Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes reservation law in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution.
In a letter to Modi dated November 12, Parameshwara sought urgent constitutional protection for the Karnataka Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Reservation of Seats in Educational Institutions and of Appointments or Posts in the Services under the State) Act, 2022, which provides for increasing reservation for Scheduled Castes from 15 to 17 per cent and for Scheduled Tribes from three to seven per c...