Bengaluru: For over a week now, a group of Dalits representing Karnataka’s 59 most vulnerable micro communities has been doing the rounds of the Congress head office in Delhi, seeking an audience with Rahul Gandhi after Chief Minister Siddaramaiah turned down their requests to provide them with any internal reservations or other safeguards.

The mostly nomadic groups are pinning their hopes on the Congress brass to get justice and protection as the Siddaramaiah government’s new internal reservation formula for Scheduled Castes (SC), they say, leaves them further marginalised.

“In around 22 caste groups, not even one person has ever gone to school, while in another 17, no one has gone beyond 5th grade. Siddaramaiah, who speaks about social justice and projects himself as the champion of

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