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| Cabinet: Krishna’s induction reflec |
| Cabinet: Krishna’s induction reflects caste factor
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| INDIA
, 23-May-2009
5:36:36 AM |
| Apart from acceptable, established images, local caste factors have also been weighed by the Congress while deciding the first choice of MPs from Karnataka to be inducted into the Manmohan Singh Cabinet. The two former chief ministers, S M Krishna, a Rajya Sabha member, and Veerappa Moily, a first-time Lok Sabha member, chosen to be a part of the UPA Ministry have crucial caste credentials going in their favour apart from seniority in the party.
The choice of the urbane, suave, US educated 77-year-old S M Krishna, who belongs to the Vokkaliga community, a dominant caste in southern Karnataka who make up nearly 12 per cent of the state’s population, comes even as the Congress continues to concede space in the community to the Janata Dal (Secular) and its Vokkaliga patriarch H D Deve Gowda.
In the recently concluded elections, no Vokkaliga candidate from the Congress was able to notch up a victory. The Congress won only six of the 28 seats — three of the winners are backward caste members, two are Scheduled Caste members and one is a Rajput. The only Vokkaliga Congress winner from the 2004 polls, filmstar M H Ambareesh from Mandya, lost ground to the JD(S) in the election.
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