Explained | Why and how was the 4% reservation for Muslims under the OBC category scrapped in Karnataka?
The story so far: At the Cabinet meeting in Karnataka on Friday, the BJP government did away with the nearly three-decade-old 4% reservation for Muslims in the Other Backward Classes category and distributed it equally among the Veerashaiva-Lingayats and Vokkaligas, two dominant land-owning communities in the State, at 2% each. The Cabinet decided to exclude Muslims from the OBC category and scrapped the 4% reservation given to them under Category 2B. The Cabinet also recommended internal reservation among the 101 SCs, a long pending demand of the SC faction to the Union Government. The BJP, which does not count Muslims among its voter base, has scrapped the reservation for Muslims, arguing that backward classes reservation is not based on religion.
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