BENGALURU: Karnataka State Backward Lessons Fee has eliminated 57 Christian sub-castes from the socio-educational survey starting Monday, following objections from ministers, protests by SC/ST and OBC teams, and a suggestion by governor Thaawar Chand Gehlot.The choice means the survey questionnaire won’t checklist sub-castes. Enumerators utilizing a cellular app between Sept 22 and Oct 7 will file such responses beneath “others”. Officers stated respondents should disclose their unique caste earlier than conversion, however these entries can even be filed beneath “others”.CM Siddaramaiah requested the fee to exclude the names after the governor warned the checklist may deepen divides. Opposition BJP had objected, alleging the train may dilute the anti-conversion legislation and lengthen reservations to transformed Christians.“The brand new nomenclature will normalise conversion and encourage the gullible to transform with out worry of shedding caste id,” Karnataka BJP Minorities Morcha president Anil Thomas stated Saturday.Samajika Nyaya Jagriti Vedike president S Harish accused Congress govt of plotting “to combine Christians into Hindu OBC communities” and of “labelling Hindu communities as Christians”.Backward courses welfare minister Shiavaraj Tangadagi countered that govt had not assigned labels: “Throughout Kantharaju Fee survey, individuals voluntarily recognized themselves as such. The confusion was sorted out.”Siddaramaiah sought to chill tensions: “This survey is to seize social and academic backwardness of individuals and to seek out out their faith. If somebody is a practising Christian, the individual will probably be listed as Christian and never by way of caste.”Congress is assured Karnataka’s survey will observe Telangana’s mannequin, with no rollback on the broader coverage.(Inputs from New Delhi)