Lingayats and Vokkaligas want implementation of ‘caste census’ put on hold till enumeration by Union govt.
The Union government’s announcement of a caste census along with the upcoming general census seems to have come as a handle for the influential Veerashaiva-Lingayat and Vokkaliga communities that have been disputing their population numbers in the Socio-Economic and Educational Survey, done by the Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes, and opposing the implementation of…