Bengaluru, Aug. 27 -- Former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's public push for implementation of internal reservation for Scheduled Castes has put Chief Minister D K Shivakumar and the Congress government in a politically sensitive spot, with the issue carrying both administrative and electoral consequences.
Siddaramaiah has repeatedly said that he would ask Shivakumar to implement internal reservation and expressed confidence that the Chief Minister would listen to him. His decision to make the message public, including through social media, has added a political dimension to an issue that is already complicated by legal challenges and competing demands from different Scheduled Caste communities.
The intervention effectively places...