Overview
- The Federation of Karnataka Muslim Organisations, which released a 75-page report in Bengaluru on Saturday, laid out a charter to the chief minister and top leaders seeking action on communal hate, reservations, voter-roll safeguards, and Waqf protection.
- On public safety, it sought a Karnataka anti-lynching law with a victim compensation plan and automatic hate-speech FIRs under Supreme Court directions, citing over 130 coastal communal incidents since May 2023 and 270 hate-speech cases statewide from 2022 to 2025.
- On BJP-era measures, it pressed to scrap the cattle slaughter act and the anti-conversion law, saying the slaughter curbs harm farmers, butchers, leather workers, and meat traders, while noting the state withdrew the classroom hijab ban earlier this week.
- On representation, the report flagged that Muslims make up about 13% of the population yet hold roughly 4.4% of Assembly seats and four of 75 Council seats, and it urged Congress to use June’s seven MLA-quota Council vacancies plus five nominations to add Muslim members.
- On elections, it asked the state to oppose or tightly safeguard a Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls after deletions reported in Bihar and West Bengal, linking the urgency to strains already visible in the Davanagere South bypoll where dissent within Congress drew sanctions.