Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah Wednesday backed demands to introduce reservations in the private sector.

“We demand that there should be reservation even in the private sector. Not just in government set-up but also in private,” he said during his speech after unveiling former backward classes commission chairman, L.G. Havanur’s statue in Bengaluru.

The statement of the 77-year-old chief minister, who is conducting a second socio-economic and educational survey in Karnataka, came shortly after that of Professor Ravi Varma Kumar, former Advocate General of Karnataka. Kumar alleged that communities that were opposing social justice for oppressed classes were the ones enjoying benefits of the same injustice. Show Full Article

That was the reason, Kumar said, that Infosys

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