Karnataka Governor sends Bill for 4 per cent Muslim reservation to President Murmu: Sources

Karnataka Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot has reserved the Bill about four per cent reservation to Muslims in government contract for the President's assent, Raj Bhavan sources said on Wednesday (April 16). According to sources, Gehlot today marked the Bill as reserved for Presidential Droupadi Murmu assent and sent it to the Karnataka Law and Parliamentary Affairs Department. Now, the state government will send the file to the President to get his nod to the Bill that has created quite a stir in



Karnataka.

The Bill was passed by both houses of the Karnataka Legislature in March amid protests by the opposition the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The BJP charged that the Bill was illegal as there is no provision in the Indian Constitution to give reservation based on religion. It also alleged that the Bill smacks of appeasement politics of the ruling Congress.

The party has made this Bill a key issue during its ‘Janaakrosha Yatre’ (Public anger march), which is going on across the state.