Supporters of party leader A. Shyam Naik claimed they were informed about a meeting, while a faction led by District Congress president K. Vishwaprasad asserted that they had invited everyone, which sparked the conflict. The factions clashed, throwing chairs at one another, leading to an altercation that resulted in injuries to one of Naik's followers.
The leaders of the BC organisations demanded the commission to remove reservations to economically weak sections and to provide 50 percent reservations to BCs in forthcoming elections to urban and rural civic bodies.
The debate around caste-based census restarted during the discussion on the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Amendment) Bill, 2021 that was recently passed in the Monsoon session of Parliament.
