Will do everything to provide reservation to different communities: Yediyurappa

Bengaluru, Feb 10 : With several communities, including Panchamasali, a subsect within the Lingayat community, demanding ‘better’ reservation, Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa said on Wednesday that he would ‘do everything to provide better reservation’ to the different communities in the state.
Yediyurappa is under pressure from various communities, including Lingayat, his own community from which the state has had 13 out the 29 chief ministers sworn-in so far in Karnataka.
Addressing the media after garlanding the statue of Kengal Hanumanthaiah, the second CM of the southern state, on his 113th birth anniversary at the Vidhana Soudha here, Yediyiurappa appealed to the pontiffs leading the agitations for their respective communities that he needed time to meet their demands.
“I will never ask the pontiffs who are leading agitations to stop their fight, but they should give me time. I will work hard and sincerely to meet their demands,” he said.
The CM stressed that he had never told any community that their demand for ‘better reservation’ won’t be met. “In every forum, I have worked hard to meet their expectations,” he said.
The Chief Minister added that any government will have to work within the framework of the Constitution and the law of the land. “We will discuss the matter with the experts to know how to provide better reservation to the communities which have been demanding reservation,” the CM said.