Quota for Muslims in contracts: Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah to meet Murmu in Delhi on Tuesday

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will meet President Draupadi Murmu on Tuesday and press for her assent to the pending bills passed by the state legislature.

“The President has given me time tomorrow. I will discuss the pending bills,” the CM told the media in Raichur.

There are five bills pending at the Rashtrapati Bhavan and one of them seeks to provide a 4% quota for Muslims in government’s civil contracts.


Governor Thawar Chand Gehlot, however, has sent the bill favouring a presidential assent after the BJP petitioned him to reject the bill.

The governor’s action in April came after Prime Minister Narendra came down heavily on the proposed quota for Muslims, saying Dr BR Ambedkar’s Constitution did not provide for reservation based on religion.

Siddaramaiah met Gehlot in Bengaluru on Sunday and discussed his observations about the five bills pending for assent before the President. One of the bills moots compulsory education in mother tongue up to class five.