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'Whoever I side with secures power': Ramdas Athawale claims Modi will win 2029 pollsUnion Minister Ramdas Athawale predicts Prime Minister Narendra Modi will win the 2029 and 2034 elections. He stated that his party's suppo...- Govt’s Rs 600 Cr scheme to develop minority colonies seen Siddaramaiah’s bid to win over MuslimsKarnataka's cabinet approved Rs 600 crore for minority housing upgrades over two years, seen as Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's move to regai...
- Karnataka: May 9 Yediyurappa event may turn out to be Vijayendra’s show of strengthUnion Home Minister Amit Shah will attend a major event in Karnataka celebrating BS Yediyurappa's 50 years in public life. The gathering ai...
- Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah on backfoot over Muslim anger; loyalist ousters ahead of bypoll resultsChief Minister Siddaramaiah faces internal challenges. Discontent brews within the Muslim community. Leaders close to him are being sidelin...
- Congress awards Davanagere South ticket to Shamnur clan, stirs Muslim leaders’ angerThe Congress party has named Samarth Shamnur as its candidate for the Davanagere South bypoll. This decision comes after intense lobbying f...
- Why traditional BJP supporters Lingayats voted for CongressCongress won 37 seats out of 46 Lingayat candidates fielded in Karnataka, in comparison to 13 in 2018 polls. This is its second highest tal...
- Change of trend in Karnataka: Even Lingayat didn't vote for BJPCongress had fielded 46 Lingayat candidates, of whom 37 won. Only 15 Lingayats from BJP secured victory, though it fielded 69 candidates fr...
- Karnataka election: BJP plans steps to counter Congress's Lingayat campaignBJP leaders discussed ways to counter Congress charges and remove doubts from the minds of voters with polls less than three weeks away.
- BJP Lingayat leaders discuss about next CM from the communityThe meeting, held on Wednesday late evening at Yediyurappa’s residence in Bengaluru in the presence of chief minister Basavaraj Bommai and ...
- BJP's leaders raise "Lingayat CM" pitch to counter Congress narrativeThe politically influential Lingayat community forms about 17 per cent of the State's population, mostly in northern parts of the State whi...
- Congress counts political dividends after 2 key Lingayat leaders join it, BJP seeks to counter narrativeChief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, a Lingayat himself on Tuesday in Bagalkote said, one or two Lingayat leaders from BJP defecting to other p...
- Congress, BJP seek to corner each other over Lingayat 'pride'Admitting Shettar, a six-time BJP MLA from Hubli-Dharwad Central, into Congress on Monday, KPCC president DK Shivakumar claimed Lingayat le...
- Lingayats hold key to electoral outcome in poll-bound KarnatakaThough 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...
- Congress reaches out to Lingayats as BJP deals with BSY 'retirement'Congress lost its influence over the community after then party CM Veerendra Patil was humiliated and sacked by party chief Rajiv Gandhi mo...
- BJP ups its game, gets ready to spoil Congress- JD(S) party in KarnatakaSeries of high-level meetings held. Congress fears the BJP is up to something sinister to stop them from forming the govt
- Karnataka election: Congress's Lingayat religious minority card fails, community's vote returns to BJPIf the Congress was banking on the crucial Lingayat vote in the 2018 assembly election following its decision to grant religious minority s...
- Lingayat churning will have big impact in future tooThe Lingayats were instrumental in bringing the BJP to power in 2008 and a large chunk of them continue to be BJP supporters.
- Congress leaders want Rahul Gandhi to ‘douse Lingayat fire’ against the partyCongress' decision on minority status has not gone down well with large sections of Lingayats. BJP has also been successful in spreading th...
- Farmer suicides have increased under Congress: Amit ShahAmit Shah is on a two-day Karnataka tour in which he is expected to visists mutts associated with the Lingayat and Dalit communities.
- Karnataka Lingayat Reservation: Will Congress reap poll harvest or end up with egg on face?The Lingayat community has distanced itself from the Congress ever since the party unceremoniously removed Veerendra Patil, a Lingayat, fro...
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