Mysuru
Mysuru-Kodagu Lok Sabha member Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar urged the state government to put off the proposed social and economic survey being undertaken from Monday across the State in the wake of the union government’s announcement to take up the general census as well as the caste census soon.
Addressing a news conference here on Sunday, he said that there has been a lot of opposition from within the council of ministers in the Siddaramaiah government as they deemed it as an effort to divide the Hindus for which they had to pay heavy price in the coming days. The Siddaramaiah government had already done two surveys in the last ten years, Kantharaj and Jayaprakash Hegde reports, and dumped both of them. The incumbent state government decided to go for the fresh survey after the high command instructed them to do so. That means the Congress national leaders didn’t have trust in the reports of the two surveys done by Siddaramaiah at a cost of Rs 200 crores. To impress the national leaders, the CM has ordered another survey by spending around Rs 440 crore.
Yaduveer said the state government has undertaken this survey during the Dasara vacation during which most of the families go out on vacation. Besides, it was unwarranted since the union government will be soon initiating the census process across the country. Nobody knew why the CM was in so much hurry to get this survey done that too when the ministers are divided over the survey. Besides, the amount which was being spent on the survey work could have been spent on other development works. The state government has become pauper as nearly Rs 60,000 crore was spent on the implementation of five guarantees and it has resorted to reckless borrowing. Usually the governments borrow loans for development works but the Siddaramaiah government was taking loans to implement the guarantees. Under this financial crunch was the survey necessary?
The MP said the ministers and the common citizens were unhappy over the different classification such as Christian-Brahmin, Christian-Vokkaliga and Christian-Kuruba and they see it as a deliberate attempt by the CM to divide the Hindus. The government seems to have taken the majority Hindus very lightly for which it has to face the consequences in the coming days. The BJP has been opposing this survey since the beginning and it would only appeal to the citizens to take note of the anti-Hindu attitude of the incumbent government.
He said since the state government has gone off track with absolutely no development in the last two years it wanted to divert the attention of the general public. There was no guarantee on the implementation of the findings of the fresh survey as it was depending upon the high command’s decision. Even this report will go to the dustbin if this is going to create political turbulence in the state in view of two major communities, Vokkaligas and Lingayats opposing it tooth and nail. It would be better for the CM to order for the postponement of the survey till the conclusion of Dasara festival and then take it up if necessary by giving more time for the enumerators.
Asked whether the ruling Congress Party is going ahead with the survey following differences in the BJP camp, Yaduveer noted that such a situation is prevailing even in the Congress party over the CM’s post. But the BJP leaders are united in this regard and they are demanding the government to drop the survey which has no value since the authentic census is being taken up by the government of India.
MP Yaduveer questions timing of Socio-Economic survey; terms it Hindu division tactics
