BJP Confident Karnataka Quota Card to ‘Caste’ Spell on SCs, STs Legal, Other Communities Have ‘Reservations’

The Basavaraj Bommai-led BJP government’s timing to announce its decision to enhance the reservations for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) is being seen as having been taken hurriedly with a focus on the Karnataka elections due next year.

The circumstances under which the chief minister took the decision are quite interesting. The political expediency arose from the fact that Congress’s Rahul Gandhi at the party’s…