Overview

• Madiga organisations in Dharwad, Hubballi and Kalaburagi staged symbolic acts such as head-tonsuring, mock funerals, motorcycle rallies and road blockades to demand internal reservations within Scheduled Castes.
• Protesters accused the Karnataka Congress government of ignoring its 2023 manifesto pledge and failing to act on socio-economic surveys by the Kantharaj and Nagamohan Das Commissions.
• Police intervened at protest sites, preventing marchers from entering Deputy Commissioners’ offices and taking several activists into preventive custody before releasing them later in the day.
• Demonstrators delivered memorandums to Deputy Commissioners’ offices, calling for a formal government announcement on sub-classification implementation.
• Activists have set an August 11 deadline for the government’s decision ahead of the upcoming legislature session.