Karnataka's Jobs for Locals Bill: Will clear confusion in coming days, says CM as BJP urges govt to pass the law in current session
private companies has not yet been discussed in detail in the Cabinet as he came under pressure from the Opposition BJP to present the draft law in the ongoing legislature session itself.
“There was some confusion (over the bill). We will clear the confusion in the coming days,” the CM posted on microblogging site X, while adding that it would be placed again before the Cabinet for detailed discussions.
In a last-minute decision, Siddaramaiah Wednesday night announced putting the jobs bill on hold after it triggered widespread backlash from captains of the tech industry and the industry body NASSCOM.
BJP state unit president BY Vijayendra urged the CM to either present the bill in the ongoing session or be prepared to face the wrath of locals for putting off the bill.
The BJP leader, in a post on the microblogging site X, called the CM’s decision a ‘cowardly’ one. “Why mess with the lives of Kannadigas.” The lobby of anti-Karnataka has prevailed behind the timid decision of the CM to take U-turn three times on his X account and to finally go back on the government’s decision, he added.
Big hands in Delhi, Vijayendra alleged, had tied the hands of the CM who may have feared a split in the INDIA alliance. Kannadigas, he added, were not getting jobs despite their qualification and the proposed law had given a ray of hope to millions of unemployed people in rural areas.
BJP leader CT Ravi alleged that the CM had brought up the reservation bill now to divert people’s attention away from the scams the government was
