Mysore/Mysuru: Asserting that the reservation quota hike for Lingayats and Vokkaligas announced by the State Government recently is only a political gimmick ahead of the forthcoming Assembly polls, former CM H.D. Kumaraswamy (HDK) maintained that the hike would not serve any purpose for both the communities.
Addressing a press meet at the Office of K.R. Nagar MLA S.R. Mahesh here yesterday, Kumaraswamy charged the ruling BJP Government of trying to make political gains out of reservation hike when polls are round the corner. Lambasting the BJP Government, he said that, according to a report, malnutrition and poverty still persists in Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s Shiggaon Constituency in Haveri district and nine other districts, which show the failure of the State Government.
