D.K. Shivakumar treading carefully on caste census

Amidst intense calculation over the political ramification of the Socio-Economic and Educational Survey on the Vokkaligas and the Veerashaiva-Lingayats, Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar seems to be in a delicate situation. Any wrong move could either antagonise the Vokkaliga community or the Congress high command, any one of which is likely to damage him politically.