Kuruba community protests in Hubballi demanding reservation
Hubballi: Members of the Pradesha Kuruba Samaja Okkuta staged a protest demanding reservation for the community at Mini Vidhana Soudha in Hubballi on Thursday.
The community members marched in a protest rally, along with their sheep from Chennamma Circle to Mini Vidhana Soudha.
President Siddanna Teji said that for the last four to five decades, there were struggles across the state for scheduled tribe reservation for the Kuruba community. After coming to power, chief minister Siddaramaiah sent information in the same way that the former chief minister Bommai govt gave wrong information. It was about one and a half years since the state govt received a letter from the central govt again asking the centre to provide correct information. After that, the govt should have discussed and resubmitted the correct information to the centre but failed. Therefore, we have decided to fight the Congress govt, which has been cheating the shepherds' community by not submitting it so far. He said that a struggle to boycott the zilla panchayat and taluk panchayat elections would be inevitable if the correct information is not sent to the centre. They submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi through the tahsildar.
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