Guns are a part of the Kodava tradition in Kodagu district of Karnataka. They are used throughout auspicious events.
Members of the Kodava neighborhood, in the hill district of Kodagu, are demanding unique, intangible constituencies in Parliament and the Karnataka Assembly on the traces of the Sangha virtual constituency for the Buddhist monastic neighborhood in Sikkim.
The Codava National Council (CNC), a physique preventing for autonomy for Kodava individuals, fears that the neighborhood might lose political illustration after the delimitation train in the 12 months 2026, for the reason that inhabitants of the neighborhood is coming down.
Kodagu district is likely one of the smallest districts in Karnataka. It was a Part ‘C’ State from 1952 to 1956. It was amalgamated with the then Mysuru State (now Karnataka) in 1956.
Recently, CNC members submitted a memorandum to the President, Union Law Minister and Chief Election Commission of India in search of creation of a virtual constituency for the Kodava neighborhood.
Nandineravanda U. Nachappa, president of CNC, informed The Hindu, “Indian government ratified the rights of Buddhist monastic community through the Sangha constituency, which was created in 1958.” He argued for the same association for the Kodavas, who’re a singular neighborhood however have gotten numerically negligible.
What is the Sangha virtual constituency
Sangha Assembly constituency is likely one of the constituencies in the 32-member Assembly of Sikkim, a State in the northeast area of India.
“The Sangha constituency doesn’t exist on the map. This seat is reserved for the Buddhist monastic community of Sikkim — Buddhist monks and nuns. About 3,293 voters registered with the 111 recognized monasteries in Sikkim State are the only ones who can contest and cast their votes for the Sangha constituency seat.
“Kodavas want a similar seat in both the Karnataka Assembly and in Parliament so that we get our own representation since our population is now down to only 70,000 people,” Mr Nachappa defined.
