Union Home Minister Amit Shah will attend a major event in Karnataka celebrating BS Yediyurappa's 50 years in public life. The gathering ai...

As Karnataka prepares for a caste survey, a divide has emerged within the Lingayat community regarding their religious identity. While the ...

Congress won 37 seats out of 46 Lingayat candidates fielded in Karnataka, in comparison to 13 in 2018 polls. This is its second highest tal...

Congress had fielded 46 Lingayat candidates, of whom 37 won. Only 15 Lingayats from BJP secured victory, though it fielded 69 candidates fr...

BJP leaders discussed ways to counter Congress charges and remove doubts from the minds of voters with polls less than three weeks away.

The meeting, held on Wednesday late evening at Yediyurappa’s residence in Bengaluru in the presence of chief minister Basavaraj Bommai and ...

The politically influential Lingayat community forms about 17 per cent of the State's population, mostly in northern parts of the State whi...

Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, a Lingayat himself on Tuesday in Bagalkote said, one or two Lingayat leaders from BJP defecting to other p...

Though Yediyurappa's new outfit KJP managed to get only six seats in that polls, it secured a vote share of about ten per cent, badly denti...

The Basavaraj Bommai government's decision to increase the reservation quota for STs from 3% to 7% and for SC's from 15% to 17%, as well as...

Congress lost its influence over the community after then party CM Veerendra Patil was humiliated and sacked by party chief Rajiv Gandhi mo...

The warm relationship between the two leaders is not new. When Yediyurappa formed the first full-fledged BJP government in Karnataka in 200...

In a last-ditch effort to win the bypolls in Karnataka, BJP is playing the cast card. Asking voters from the Veerashaiva-Lingayat community...

If the Congress was banking on the crucial Lingayat vote in the 2018 assembly election following its decision to grant religious minority s...

While Congress sees the move as empowering Lingayats, BJP has dubbed it divisive as it tries to distinguish between Lingayats and Veerashai...

Karnataka is one of the most diverse states where seven languages are spoken: apart from Kannada, there is Telugu, Tamil, Tulu, Marathi, Ko...

The development may lead to the two communities largely supporting Congress in the polls, but observers said the issues could go either way...