In a blatant display of minority appeasement, the Congress government in Karnataka has released a tender for providing Army training exclusively to minority students. BJP MLC Dr Ravi CT posted an image of the advertisement dated November 2, 2026, published by the Directorate of Minorities.
In the advertisement, the state government’s Directorate of Minorities has invited short-term tenders, inviting interested bidders or institutes to provide Army training exclusively to students from the minority community in the state for the academic session 2026-27.
“A short-term tender has been invited by the Directorate of Minorities for providing 60 days Army training to Minority students for the year 2026-27. Interested and eligible bidders/institutes can apply through the e-Procurement portal,” reads the advertisement.
This is unacceptable CM @DKShivakumar avre! What are the priorities of the Congress government in Karnataka? The Directorate of Minorities has invited a tender to provide 60 days of Army training exclusively for minority students for 2026–27. Why do they need exclusive Army training? To fight whom? Are they bringing special trainers like Hafiz Sayeed for this? The government can’t spend the public money however it wants to! The government must clarify about this project. For vote bank politics, Khangress government will even train ‘brothers’ in hand to hand combat as well! I urge the central government to take note of this issue very seriously. National security and public funds cannot become instruments of vote-bank politics.
— Dr. Ravi C. T 🇮🇳 ಡಾ. ರವಿ ಸಿ. ಟಿ (@CTRavi_BJP) November 7, 2026
As per the notification, a pre-bid meeting is scheduled for November 6, 2026, and the deadline for submitting tenders is November 20, 2026.
Expressing concern over the discriminatory notification, MLC Dr Ravi CT called out the Karnataka government for using public money for vote-bank politics. He urged the central government to take cognisance of the matter. “I urge the central government to take note of this issue very seriously. National security and public funds cannot become instruments of vote-bank politics,” the BJP MLC wrote.
The advertisement has attracted huge backlash, as questions are being raised about the expenditure of public money by the Congress government on schemes whose benefits are extended exclusively to minority communities. The advertisement excluded students from non-minority communities, which include Hindus, from the benefits of the scheme.
Questions are also being raised about the intent of the Congress government in restricting the state-sponsored military training to only minority communities. One wonders as to why the state government wants to deprive students from non-minority communities from a training program which is not community or religion-specific.
Military training would inculcate discipline, develop physical fitness and nurture love for the nation in young people. Clearly, there is no reason for restricting the opportunities for self-development offered by the scheme only to students from minority communities.
This is not the only time that the state government has rolled out a scheme exclusively for minority communities using public funds. In April this year, the Congress government in Karnataka approved an action plan worth ₹600 crore for developing colonies exclusively for minorities. The plan was meant for the development of colonies inhabited by minorities for the financial years 2026-27 and 2027-28.
